Thursday, May 18, 2006

"Mesothelioma treatment" - Scope of asbestos relief questioned


Scope of asbestos relief questioned
Asahi Shimbun, Japan - Apr 18, 2006The machinery maker has pledged to pay up to 46 million yen each to 88 lung cancer or mesothelioma patients and their bereaved families. ...

TUC welcomes talks to speed up asbestos compensation
Post Magazine (subscription), UK - May 17, 2006... welcomed the announcement from Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton MP that he is to look at ways of speeding up compensation for mesothelioma victims and ...

Families of asbestos disease victims feel law has deserted them
Scotland Today, UK - May 3, 2006... so what the law should be saying and has been saying is if you expose this person to asbestos and you increase the risk of getting mesothelioma - the worst ...

The pattern of lymph node involvement influences outcome after ...
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - May 12, 2006... to examine the distribution and prognostic implications of nodal metastasis in patients undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant mesothelioma in a ...

EPA faults industry study
El Dorado Hills Telegraph, CA - May 3, 2006... levels. "Naturally occurring asbestos does cause a risk for cancer, for mesothelioma in particular," said Professor Marc Schenker. ...

Is this justice
ic CheshireOnline, UK - May 11, 2006... It dealt a blow to the compensation hopes to the families of thousands of victims of mesothelioma, the incurable type of asbestos-related cancer. ...