Following a flood, asbestos is often discovered in damaged homes and commercial buildings and is costly to remove and replace. View full post on Mesothelioma.com News Related Blogs Related posts: Asbestos Alert: Cooke County, TX building requires asbestos abatement Like over 30 million aging US buildings, a structure in… Occupational asbestos exposure still a problem [...]
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Following a flood, asbestos is often discovered in damaged homes and commercial buildings and is costly to remove and replace. View full post on Mesothelioma.com News Related Blogs Related posts: Asbestos Alert: Cooke County, TX building requires asbestos abatement Like over 30 million aging US buildings, a structure in… Occupational asbestos exposure still a problem [...]
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Pain management is of vital concern to patients with cancer, and a new program offers hope for better treatment using a variable approach designed to offer the patient more control through knowledge and learned techniques. The SCION-PAIN program will be tested on 240 oncology patients in two hospitals in Germany and will address pharmacologic pain [...]
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The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is struggling to clean up a problem that has become an eyesore and a health problem for the coastal areas. Abandoned commercial vessels litter the shoreline along the delta areas, leaking toxic chemicals, fuel, and asbestos into the water and surrounding environment. Before scuttling an unusable boat, [...]
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In response to accusations leveled by former employees and broadcast by local Fox 31 News, Denver Water released a statement addressing concerns that there is cement asbestos pipe buried somewhere near the Foothills Treatment Plant. The official statement makes the point that the accusations are vague and that none of the former employees have come [...]
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Workers contracted as part of the redevelopment effort for a RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) base in Edinburgh have voiced concerns about the safety of the work environment, specifically the presence of dangerous asbestos fibers and other toxins in the workplace. Union officials are planning to hold a meeting to address the worker’s concerns. Australia [...]
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Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a type of cancer. It affects the lining which protects your internal organs. The outer lining of the lungs, called the pleura is the commonly affected area. The condition may also occur in other forms and locations such as the heart and its surrounding sac, the pericardium. What causes it? Those [...]
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In the northeastern coastal towns of Italy’s large shipping industry, there is a growing epidemic of mesothelioma affecting not only working men, but domestic women as well. View full post on Asbestos.net News & Information Related Blogs Related posts: Virginia man Diagnosed with Rare Testicular Mesothelioma Beats Odds A Virginia man from Spotsylvania County was [...]
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The Kansas department of corrections is under investigation by the EPA for allegedly exposing workers to dangerous amounts of asbestos dust during an asbestos abatement project at the Topeka prison in 2005. According to state and federal laws specially licenses contractors must be used for asbestos removal projects to ensure that the proper safe handling [...]
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Using a 35-year-old rule, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has told Northshore Mining that they are required to perform air quality testing for asbestos fibers near Silver Bay. Northshore, however, says that the ongoing air testing requirement – which would compare North Shore air to air from St. Paul, the control city – is [...]
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