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An annex of Public School 143 in Corona, Queens that contained classrooms for over 100 kindergarten students was closed due to discovery of asbestos after water leaks occurred at the end of September. The students and teachers were immediately evacuated, yet parents still remain concerned that their children may have been exposed prior to [...]

Team Lung Love (TLL), as part of the Lung Cancer Alliance, has sponsored a team to run the upcoming Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC on October 30, 2011.  TLL is a program that raises awareness and support for patients and families touched by lung cancer.
Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rather rare form of lung [...]

Ever since rescue workers and construction personnel working in the footprint of the World Trade Center began to complain about mysterious and seemingly unexplainable illnesses, the media and other outlets have been quick to make a connection.  It is true that the debris at Ground Zero was loaded with harmful chemicals and materials including asbestos [...]

After years of battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs, innovator and co-founder and former CEO of Apple, died yesterday. Jobs was diagnosed in 2004 after a biopsy revealed neuroendocrine tumors, which develop in the hormone-producing cells of the pancreas.  His particular type of pancreatic cancer typically grows slower than more common [...]

Excela Health, located in southwestern Pennsylvania, has three acute care hospitals as well as offers a wide array of services that include prevention, home care, cancer care, hospice, outpatient rehabilitation, and diagnostic testing and imaging.  Excela recently partnered with University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) to offer outpatient care and diagnostic testing for lung cancer, [...]

Over 200 asbestos and mesothelioma lawsuits have been filed against W.R. Grace & Co. in response to health conditions and concerns caused directly by their vermiculite mining operation in Libby, Montana.  Vermiculite, a type of naturally occurring asbestos,  was mined, processed, and shipped from Libby and the surrounding areas.
Vermiculite supplied by W.R. Grace was used [...]

Arson is an unlikely friend but to 126 residents of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado it may have just saved their lives.  The fire, which destroyed or damaged much of one building in the complex on September 24, led investigators to discover a previously undocumented asbestos threat.  The materials were deemed dangerous enough to [...]

Yet another New York Asbestos abatement contractor has been caught in violation of the Clean Air Act.  Keith Gordon-Smith stood accused of lying to OSHA, violating the federal Clean Air Act, and directly endangering the lives and well-being of his employees by forcing them to handle materials known to be contaminated with asbestos without proper [...]

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was once widely used in many construction and industrial materials that is now known to cause serious illnesses, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer.  In the 1980’s, the use of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) became severely restricted by governmental and environmental agencies.  However, after centuries of use, [...]

A new process, ABCOV, has been found to eliminate the dangers of asbestos, providing a way to remove and dispose of asbestos that is safe for both people and the environment.   ABCOV is a patented (US Patent 5,041,277), simple, non-thermal process approved by the U.S.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that has very recently become available [...]