Today's post is shared from nejm.org "Each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die often painful, protracted deaths from diseases ca...

WHO (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The WHO (UN World Health Organization) reports that 1 in every 3 Europeans are still exposed to asbestos...

The reduction of factors contributing to cardiovascular disease would make any workplace a lot healthier. Recently, Mayor Bloomberg equated ...

A Walk/Run in support of research to treat and cure mesothelioma was successfully held in South Florida today. Hundreds were in attendance t...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City may have put a a focus a new compensable event.  A long proponent of a healthier living environme...

Recent Workers' Compensation reforms enacted in the 1990's are more likely to effect older workers  who are then more likely to to a...

A team of scientists at Oxford University have reported a more accurate and less invasive test to diagnose mesothelioma. The findings have ...

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate David Michaels, Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Adminis...

The Texas State Senate has passed legislation that will ease the proof in mesothelioma claims. The  bill establishes a standard requiring th...

The US Supreme Court once again hear oral argument in a claim arising out of "the longest running tort" in the nation's hist...

The focus of litigation against WR Grace has now shifted to the civil courts in a trial against 5 former company officials for damages resu...

PPG Industries (Pittsburg Corning Corp.) and its insurers plan to pay out millions of dollars to victims of asbestos disease. In a bankrupt...

The Washington Supreme Court has taken a step back in time and rendered two significant decisions limiting he rights of asbestos victims to...

Asbestos exposure continues to have high rates of death in the US. Potential years of lost life continue to be at epidemic proportions. The ...

The Canadian delegation to the Rotterdam Convention was able to lobby effectively to prohibit a ban on asbestos for another two years. The ...

At a recent hearing of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Max Baucus presented a report revealing that the F...

The legacy of asbestos related disease continues in New Jersey. Around the time of World War II New Jersey was an epicenter of the productio...

The US EPA (Environmental; Protection Agency) has published an announcement to seek appointments to its Scientific Advisory Panel with asb...

ADOC Press Release Washington, D.C. Oct 04, 2007 ADAO Praises U.S. Senate for Passing Senator Patty Murray's Ban Asbestos in America Act...