A Texas jury awarded $1.2 million this month to the wife of an engineer who died from mesothelioma cancer, allegedly caused by working with asbestos additives to drilling lubricants and cement.   The suit was originally brought by Danny Puckett and his wife; he died earlier this year from the disease – for which the [...]

The Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco has taken a path that the federal courts and several state courts have opted for already, in deciding to create an asbestos “department” within the court administration.  All asbestos cases will be referred to a single judge who will move them through preliminary phases [...]

Researchers at North Carolina State in conjunction with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have completed a study of the behavior of carbon nanotubes when inhaled by laboratory mice.  Nanotubes are the basic molecular building blocks for nanotechnology, the construction and use of micro-sized devices to be used for medical purposes and [...]

Detroit’s Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, in cooperation with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), will launch a targeted health initiative in January 2010 focused on environmentally-associated cancers.
The goal of the study is to associate cancer development in the state with existing potential environmental causes.  According to the Institute’s CEO Ann G. Schwartz, PhD, [...]

At any given time there are several clinical trials underway for chemotherapy treatment of mesothelioma patients.  The two drugs that have proven to be effective with some types of mesothelioma cells are pemetrexed and cisplatin.  Researchers are now experimenting with the use of these drugs in combination with other chemotherapy drugs to see if additional [...]