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Commercial Plaintiff Wins Now With "No Win...No Pay...No Risk" Lawsuit Advance
Commercial Plaintiff Wins Now With "No Win...No Pay...No Risk" Lawsuit Advance "No one pays much attention to how a person who has been injured is going to live while waiting for a case to settle, the legal system tends to put people who cannot afford to ...
Getting Legal Help for an Asbestos Related Injury
Asbestos is a material that was widely used in a range of everyday items up until the late 1970s and early 1980s. Millions of people were exposed to this material on a daily basis, but those exposed to the highest levels were people that worked with ...
The Signs And Symptoms Of Asbestosis - What To Look Out For
Asbestosis is a disease caused by exposure to high levels to asbestos, a dangerous mineral that can also result in mesothelioma, which is a deadly cancer. It is important for anyone that works or has worked with asbestos - and those that think they ...
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Recent study of U.S. government provides the latest evidence of a systematic cover-up of the health toll from pollution after the 9/11 disaster, which doctors fear will cause more deaths than the attacks themselves.
Belfast Telegraph says, The Bush administration suppressed evidence of increasing danger and officially announced that the air around the felled buildings was "safe to breathe".
But results of the government study, conducted by a consortium of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, show exposure-related increases in new-onset cough, wheeze, shortness of breath, and bronchial hyperreactivity more than 2½ years after the disaster.
Ambient air samples showed that asbestos levels in the WTC area were initially elevated following the September 11 attacks, but fell to within federal standards after the first few days.
"More research is needed to determine whether long-term exposure to asbestos fibers might lead to an increased risk of lung mesothelioma, a rare cancer that has been linked to asbestos exposure," said Landrigan. "Previous studies have shown the short chrysotile fibers found in the WTC dust to be the predominant fiber in lung mesothelioma tissue."
It is important to note that symptoms of mesothelioma may not appear until 30-50 years after exposure to asbestos.
Often symptoms of pleural mesothelioma are:
- shortness of breath,
- pain in the chest
Peritoneal mesothelioma symptoms include:
- weight loss,
- abdominal pain,
- swelling,
- bowel obstruction,
- blood clotting,
- anemia,
- fever.
If the cancer has spread beyond the mesothelium to other parts of the body, symptoms may include pain, trouble swallowing, or swelling of the neck or face.
It is very important to see a doctor about any of these symptoms. Only a doctor can make a diagnosis.
Educate yourself on mesothelioma, asbestos and class action lawsuits. Check out latest breaking news on mesothelioma at http://www.thelioma.com.
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Asbestos killed Blackwood woman - coronerSouth Wales Argus... caretaker died as a result of exposure to asbestos throughout her career, a court heard yesterday. Brenda Ann Butcher, 65, of Blackwood, was diagnosed with the cancer mesothelioma on March 7 last year after doctors discovered a tumour on her lung.and more » |
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Asbestos or clay dust may have killed Midway manBurton MailDr Acland gave a cause of death as pulmonary fibrosis (scarring of the lung). He said: “I found quite extensive fibrosis, but no silicosis, and no asbestos bodies. “There may be other factors that caused the lung inflammation but clay dust is not a ... |
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