Mesothelioma Survival
… newly diagnosed mesothelioma patients. If you are a mesothelioma patient or a loved one of a …
Source: www.prweb.com

Hospital dust proved fatal
Barking and Dagenham Post, UK - Aug 9, 2006Rodney Brown, 61, maintained the heating system at Guys Hospital in Lambeth and later developed mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer. …
Source: www.bdpost.co.uk

Asbestos to be banned in Ghana?
Public Agenda, Ghana - Aug 14, 2006… Exposure to asbestos has been linked to several deadly diseases including asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma; in Britain these three diseases constitute …
Source: www.ghanaweb.com

An advertising model that does not click
Financial Times, UK - Jul 30, 2006… term asbestosis in a US search engine, then clicked on one of the adverts placed by a lawyer trawling for clients among the ranks of mesothelioma victims …
Source: www.ft.com

Mesothelioma Compensation Bill receives Royal Assent
Workplace Law Network (subscription), UK - Jul 28, 2006The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has announced that the Compensation Bill for mesothelioma victims has received Royal Assent. …
Source: www.workplacelaw.net

Nye, Hugh Todd, Sr.
Chattanoogan - Hugh Todd Nye Sr., 77, of Chattanooga, died on Monday, July 31, 2006, at his home with his family by his side after a courageous battle with mesothelioma. Born in Scottsboro, Al., on June 27, 1929, he was the son of the late Harold E. Nye Sr. and
Source: www.chattanoogan.com

I-Team: Lead Paint Settlement Funds Misappropriated
News Channel 10 - A spokesman for Brigham and Women’s said, “we got a call from Motley Rice attorney Don Migliori and said we’d be receiving $1.5 million from the DuPont case and the money was to be donated to our mesothelioma program.” The I-Team has learned that
Source: www.turnto10.com

‘Don’t let it happen here’ (IC Croydon)
A GRIEVING daughter has added her support to a campaign against plans for an asbestos transfer station in Benfleet. Pauline Emerick, who lost her mother Lucy Gray to asbestos-related disease mesothelioma in 1997, contacted the Yellow Advertiser after reading our front page story three weeks ago.
Source: icessex.icnetwork.co.uk

Google Breaks More Ground In Advertising (The New York Sun)
Whenever someone goes to the Google Web site and searches for “mesothelioma,” Google Inc. receives $50 from each of the law firms and other advertisers that pay to guarantee their ads appear next to the search results. The price for this “key word” for a form of asbestos cancer is the highest paid to Google by advertisers. While Google’s system of matching “key words”with content and its
Source: www.nysun.com

Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Mondaq)
We recently reported on the controversial House of Lords decision which significantly reduced the potential liabilities of employers and their insurers for mesothelioma claims resulting from asbestos exposure: Barker v Corus (UK) plc.
Source: www.mondaq.com

Historic Wins for Mesothelioma Research Funding (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation , the national nonprofit dedicated to eradicating mesothelioma as a life-ending disease, announced today two historic victories in federal research funding to combat the deadly asbestos-related cancer.
Source: biz.yahoo.com

Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Mondaq)
We recently reported on the controversial House of Lords decision which significantly reduced the potential liabilities of employers and their insurers for mesothelioma claims resulting from asbestos exposure: Barker v Corus (UK) plc.
Source: www.mondaq.com

‘Don’t let it happen here’ (IC Croydon)
A GRIEVING daughter has added her support to a campaign against plans for an asbestos transfer station in Benfleet. Pauline Emerick, who lost her mother Lucy Gray to asbestos-related disease mesothelioma in 1997, contacted the Yellow Advertiser after reading our front page story three weeks ago.
Source: icessex.icnetwork.co.uk

Jury Awards Shipyard Worker’s Widow $10M
WINK TV - Buddy Jones was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer caused almost exclusively by asbestos. Because the cancer can lie dormant for 20 to 50 years, some older shipyard workers are just realizing the effects of their asbestos exposure. Dr. John C
Source: www.winktv.com

Progress the Highlight of Second International Mesothelioma Symposium
KRNV - SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Fresh evidence of progress in the diagnosis and treatment of an aggressive asbestos-related cancer was the highlight of the Second International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma last week. Long
Source: www.krnv.com

State briefs: John Ford’s ex-wife jailed for probation violation
Nashville Tennessean - Even though Alcoa was familiar with reports of family member contraction of mesothelioma (asbestos-related cancer) from workers’ clothes as early as 1968 and worker contraction of mesothelioma from intermittent exposures as early as 1964, at no time
Source: www.tennessean.com

DEATHS IN THE NEWS
Wilmington Morning Star - Winnick died Saturday on Long Island, N.Y., from mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter, Pamela Winnick, attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. Winnick worked for the New York
Source: www.wilmingtonstar.com

Source: M2 PressWIRE
Insurance News Net - RDATE:20072006 John Hutton today gave details of how the system for compensating sufferers of mesothelioma, the debilitating form of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, would be improved and speeded up. After working with key stakeholders
Source: www.insurancenewsnet.com

Mesothelioma Community Will Convene to Focus on Cure - International
KRNV - SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — The urgent mission to improve treatments for a deadly, asbestos-related cancer will make another step forward, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF) announced today, with the Second
Source: www.krnv.com

Fitness, faith help a few outlive doctors’ predictions
Lockport Union-Sun - They were years and experiences doctors didn t expect he would have when he was diagnosed with presumed mesothelioma in 1996. They said I had two years to live, said Shaw of the cancer that invades the lungs. But I never worried
Source: www.lockportjournal.com

Worlds Longest Living Mesothelioma Survivor 
Mesothelioma patients can speak with Paul Kraus who is perhaps the worlds longest living mesothelioma survivor. The next free teleconference is scheduled for August 22, 2006. Sign-up form is available at: http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com/speak-to-paul-kraus.cfm All mesothelioma patients are invited to attend. (PRWEB Jul 20, 2006) Trackback URI:
Source: www.prweb.com

Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution 
Olivo v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 895 A.2d 1143 (N.J. 2006) Breaking ranks with the highest courts of New York and Georgia, the New Jersey Supreme Court has extended the duty landowners owe workers for the foreseeable risk of asbestos exposure to the spouses of those workers as well — based on the foreseeable risk of exposure from asbestos dust carried home on contaminated work clothing.
Source: www.mondaq.com

Cambridge Antibody Technology Announces Acquisition of Oncology Product Candidate From Enzon 
CAMBRIDGE, England, July 27 /PRNewswire/ — Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) announces the acquisition of product candidate SS1P (renamed CAT-5001) from Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., based in Bridgewater, New Jersey in May 2006.
Source: www.redorbit.com

Google Breaks More Ground In Advertising 
Whenever someone goes to the Google Web site and searches for “mesothelioma,” Google Inc. receives $50 from each of the law firms and other advertisers that pay to guarantee their ads appear next to the search results. The price for this “key word” for a form of asbestos cancer is the highest paid to Google by advertisers. While Google’s system of matching “key words”with content and its
Source: www.nysun.com

Yesterday in parliament 
Lebanon crisis Britain expressed “grave concern” over the “escalating crisis” in Lebanon and called for all parties to resume peace talks. Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said: “We need an urgent end to the current crisis. Real peace can come only through a lasting settlement.
Source: politics.guardian.co.uk

Health Insurance Beyond Reach of Many U.S. Minorities
KSLA - ONCONASE(R) (ranpirnase), Alfacell’s lead investigational drug candidate, is currently being evaluated in several studies, including a Phase IIIb trial for malignant mesothelioma (MM) and a Phase I / II trial in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC
Source: www.ksla.com

American Thoracic Society 2006 International Conference
Medscape News - Ohar, MD, has disclosed that she received grants for clinical research from the Mesothelioma Applied Research Fund, and she has served as an advisor or consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Altana. Dr. Ohar also disclosed
Source: www.medscape.com

Jury Awards Shipyard Worker’s Widow $10M
WINK TV - Buddy Jones was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer caused almost exclusively by asbestos. Because the cancer can lie dormant for 20 to 50 years, some older shipyard workers are just realizing the effects of their asbestos exposure. Dr. John C
Source: www.winktv.com

Alfacell Corporation Announces Common Stock and Warrant Offering of
KRON4 - ONCONASE(R) (ranpirnase), Alfacell’s lead investigational drug candidate, is currently being evaluated in several studies, including a Phase IIIb registration study for unresectable malignant mesothelioma (MM). The Company has developed and managed
Source: www.kron4.com

Baron & Budd, P.C. Attorney Ellen Presby to Speak at University of
PRWeb - The firm represents individuals with mesothelioma and other diseases caused by asbestos; leukemia and lymphoma caused by benzene; and injuries caused by other toxic substances and pharmaceuticals. The firm also represents water authorities seeking
Source: www.prweb.com

Economist Louis Winnick Dies at 85
Columbian - The cause of death was mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter Pamela Winnick attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. Winnick was born in Romania and came to Brooklyn when he was 1
Source: www.columbian.com

Fitness, faith help a few outlive doctors’ predictions
Lockport Union-Sun - They were years and experiences doctors didn t expect he would have when he was diagnosed with presumed mesothelioma in 1996. They said I had two years to live, said Shaw of the cancer that invades the lungs. But I never worried
Source: www.lockportjournal.com

Provision thrown out in W.R. Grace case
Missoulian - Mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that normally occurs in only nine of a million individuals, has been found in at least 20 of the 8,000 residents of Libby and the surrounding area, prosecutors allege in the indictment. And
Source: www.missoulian.com

Preschool art show benefits former teacher
North County Times - After a two-week hospital stay in January, Price was diagnosed with advanced mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer. Even with chemotherapy, her doctors told Price she only had a year to live. Price said she hopes she will live longer than that so that
Source: www.nctimes.com

Asbestos ruling: Amendment overturns House of Lords Mesothelioma …
injurywatch, UK - Jul 14, 2006The House of Lords ruling which would have deprived most of the 2,000 victims of Mesothelioma of much of their compensation is likely to be overturned by …
Source: www.injurywatch.co.uk

Asbestos at firm led to man s death
This is Swindon, UK - Jul 14, 2006… inquest has heard. Norman Fraser, 74, died of mesothelioma, an asbestos-related form of lung cancer, on March 29 this year. The illness …
Source: www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk

Fast track for asbestos compensation claims
Leeds Today, UK - Jul 22, 2006… Yorkshire. People suffering from mesothelioma will go to the top of the pile to help make sure they get help before it is too late. …
Source: www.leedstoday.net

Baron & Budd, P.C. Attorney Ellen Presby to Speak at University of Houston Law Foundation Program
… the plaintiffs’ bar. The firm represents individuals with mesothelioma and other diseases caused by asbestos; leukemia and …
Source: www.prweb.com

Asbestos Case Nets $10.3 Million Verdict (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance)
A San Francisco jury awarded $10.3 million in damages Monday in an asbestos case brought by a 60-year-old former ship fitter who allegedly has mesothelioma. Jeffrey Kaiser said it’s a big verdict for his relatively new firm, and likely one of California’s 10 largest compensatory asbestos verdicts in the last 15 years.
Source: biz.yahoo.com