Showing posts with label occupational cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label occupational cancer. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Is the Cosmetic Industry the Next Tobacco or Asbestos?

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Do You Want a Toxic Manicure? The health dangers emanating from the unregulated cosmetic industry are becoming more apparent and more...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

NIOSH Is Developing a Voluntary Roster of Exposed Oil Spill Workers

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is building upon the historical problems of past national disasters by est...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Breast Cancer Linked to Occupational Exposures

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A recent article in Occupational and Environmental Medicine causally links certain occupational exposures to breast cancer.  "Odds rati...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Cell Phone Use and Occupational Cancer: The Jury is Still Out

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A  study by a 13-country team of experts concludes that it is unable to reach a definitive conclusion on the causal relationship between ce...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

NIOSH Monitoring Work-Related Cancer

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health through The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) continues to monitor and ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Caution Your Job May Cause Cancer

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The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) through the  International Agency for Cancer Research  (IARC)   has issued a new monogra...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Occupational Disease Pilot Program & Healthcare

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Health Care reform continues to be at the forefront of the Obama administration’s agenda.   Legal Talk Network Host and  Attorney Alan S. Pi...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Camp Lejeune Toxic Exposure

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Newly reported information is now demonstrating that the water at Camp Lejeune NC military base may have been  contaminated as a result of a...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Secretary at Former Asbestos Plant Awarded $17.87 Million

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A former secretary at an Illinois asbestos plant, Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) was awarded $17.87 Million as a result of con...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

New OSHA Booklet Sets Forth Hexavalent Chromium Standard

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a booklet describing the industry requirements for safe handling of...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

OSHA Moving to Finalize Crystalline Silica Exposure Standard

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is moving forward on implementing the standard for occupational exposure to silica...
Friday, January 1, 2010

Older Energy Workers Occupationally Ill

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A new study reveals that older energy workers suffer a propensity of occupational illnesses. Historically occupational diseases of energy w...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Toxic Legacy in Iraq

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The Public Education Center (PEC) has published the second in a series of investigative articles concerning the toxic exposure of Army Nati...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Breast Cancer Linked to Night Shift Work by Danish Compensation System

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The Danish government has begun to pay compensation benefits to women who develop breast cancer after working night shifts and irregular ...
Friday, July 17, 2009

ADAO honors asbestos victim and nurse for 2010 Asbestos Awareness Day

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The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) announced that June Breit, a pleural mesothelioma victim since 2002, is its 2010 ADAO Al...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Pittsburg Corning to Plans to Pay Asbestos Victims $825 Million

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PPG Industries (Pittsburg Corning Corp.) and its insurers plan to pay out millions of dollars to victims of asbestos disease. In a bankrupt...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Losing the workplace cancer fight – BBC

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The Stirling University study mentioned in the BBC programme blurb below will appear in the October-December 2007 issue of the International...