Showing posts with label Lung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lung. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2016

Pleural mesothelioma reported in a school teacher: asbestos exposure due to DAS paste

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The hazardous legacy exposures of school children and art teachers to  materials containing asbestos fiber, ie. Fibro Clay, and its causal ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Malignant Mesothelioma Treatment (PDQ®)

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Today's post was shared by Linda Reinstein and comes from www. cancer .gov Malignant mesothelioma is a disease in which malignan...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Facing lawsuits over deadly asbestos, paper giant launched secretive research program

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By 2007, the Georgia-Pacific research program, approved by Childs, was in full swing. The first step was to try to re-create bot...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Carolina Asbestos Textile Industry Risk High Mortality

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Image via Wikipedia Studies of workers in two US cohorts of asbestos textile workers exposed to chrysotile (North Carolina (NC) and South C...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Automobile Mechanics Should Be Cautious About Asbestos Exposure

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Many brakes and clutches used in new and recent model automobiles do not contain asbestos. However, it has not been totally eliminated. Some...
Monday, October 25, 2010

A New Wave of Disease - Cleaners Asthma

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Workers exposed to chlorine agents have been diagnosed with respiratory impairments. A recent study has reported that "suggest that bl...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Lung Cancer Risk High Despite Absence of Asbestosis Diagnosis

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Asbestos workers continue to have a higher risk for lung cancer even if asbestos findings are not present on x-ray. A recent report in the...