Month: November 2018

Recently, the Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest regarding the establishment of a new asbestos trust fund. While filing for bankruptcy, the Kaiser Gypsum Company also established funds for an asbestos trust to compensate former employees who got...

In 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) completed one of the greatest feats in the history of mankind. That year, after ten years of labor, an international team of experts gave us the genetic blueprint to build a human being. Twelve years later, in 2015, individual...

As we have learned more about the connection between asbestos and mesothelioma, the connection has become clearer. While not everyone who is exposed to asbestos gets a mesothelioma diagnosis, there is a connection between people who have more exposure developing this...

Mesothelioma is a difficult diagnosis to understand and deal with. The average mesothelioma patient lives less than five years after being diagnosed. Mesothelioma is a deadly and aggressive cancer. Like other cancers, mesothelioma is also expensive to treat. Often...

October was National Healthy Lung Month. The intention of recognition is to encourage people to consider the health of their lungs.When people think about lung health, tobacco use is one of the first things that comes to mind. While smoking is largely responsible for...

Researchers may have found a better way to identify the severity of malignant pleural mesothelioma, or MPM. A study published in the October edition of the Journal of Molecular Cancer suggests that using a particular type of "biomarker" could help doctors diagnose...