FL Senate Approves Bill Requiring Form for Asbestos Lawsuits
The Florida Senate voted to approve Republican Senator Travis Hutson’s proposed SB 720 requiring courts to dismiss asbestos claims without a completed information form. The bill’s next stop is the Florida House of Representatives.
If the House approves the measure, it would then go before the governor. If signed into law, those with asbestos-related diseases will have to provide more extensive information when filing a lawsuit.
SB 720 has the backing of businesses. Lobbying groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Insurance Council also support the measure.
However, veterans groups a...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - March 11, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Asbestos (general) Asbestos Exposure Asbestosis Cancer (Non-Meso) Florida Legal Lawsuit Mesothelioma Source Type: news
Report: Majority of Federal Buildings Miss Asbestos Inspections
The Government Accountability Office reports 66.7% of all U.S. federal buildings miss their routine 5-year asbestos inspections and 52% haven’t been inspected in more than 10 years. The General Services Administration requires all federal buildings built before 1998 be inspected for asbestos at least once every 5 years.
GSA blames a lack of funding, staff shortages, database limitations and incomplete records for the lack of recent asbestos checks. The agency is requesting $500,000 for the fiscal year 2024 to fund inspections. It’s also considering changing the inspection rule from every 5 years to every 10 ye...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - March 10, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Amy Edel Tags: Asbestos (general) Source Type: news
School District Fined Over Staff Working Amid Asbestos
An Iowa school district is facing thousands of dollars in fines for having employees work inside an asbestos-contaminated building. Newly released state records show the Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the North Linn Community School District $70,000. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources also fined the district an additional $6,000.
The records show the incident happened during renovations at a middle and high school complex in August 2022 near Coggon Iowa, about 30 miles north of Cedar Rapids. A worker found asbestos under the floor tile when preparing to install new carpeting. Instead of h...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - March 4, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Asbestos (general) Asbestos Exposure Companies Mesothelioma Source Type: news
' Beyond belief': fears of asbestos return
The discovery of asbestos in some handfuls of mulch a child took from a playground in Sydney has caused a scare in the Australian city. With separate concern over asbestos in ageing pipes that provide drinking water around the world, attention is returning to the dangers of the carcinogenic…#sydney #australian #gardenmulch #bbcfuture #stannington #sheffield #abcnews #newsouthwales #ireland #guardian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cyprus Mines and Ex-J & J Talc Supplier Imerys Create $862M Trust
Imerys Talc America, Inc. and the company’s former owner, Cyprus Mines Corporation, will create a collective $862 million dollar trust. The goal is for the trust to settle personal injury claims alleging their asbestos-contaminated talc caused plaintiffs’ cancer.
This comes after both groups filed reorganization plans and disclosure statements on January 31, 2024 in The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Both companies filed for bankruptcy protection in hopes of continuing business through a reorganization plan.
Facing more than 14,600 lawsuits, Imerys filed for bankruptcy in 2019. The majori...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 28, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Legal Litigation talc Talcum Powder Source Type: news
Renowned Thoracic Surgeon Enhances Mesothelioma Care in FL
Dr. Rodney Landreneau is joining the renowned Thoracic Surgical Program at Tampa General Hospital. He spent decades caring for patients with pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer patients in Western Pennsylvania at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn Highlands Healthcare. He’s now moved more than 1,000 miles to help augment Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute’s successful patient care.
Landreneau has nearly 40 years of experience treating malignant pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer, as well as benign and malignant diseases of the esophagus. An internationally recognized scientific investigator in the treatme...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 26, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Cancer Center Doctors/Specialists Mesothelioma Treatment Source Type: news
Pegargiminase + Chemo Increases Survival Rate in Nonepithelioid Pleural Mesothelioma
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 -- For patients with nonepithelioid pleural mesothelioma, pegargiminase plus chemotherapy is associated with improved survival versus placebo plus chemotherapy, according to a study published online Feb. 15 in JAMA... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 23, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
New Drug to Treat Mesothelioma Hailed as a Major Breakthrough
ADI-PEG20 or pegargiminase is being hailed as the first drug of its kind to be incorporated successfully with chemotherapy in 20 years. Researchers say this new drug could bring hope to thousands of mesothelioma survivors and their families.
The drug blocks the cancer’s food supply, ensuring the disease can’t spread. It prevents cancer cells from absorbing the amino acid arginine from the bloodstream. Arginine helps the body build protein.
Mesothelioma cells are deficient in a protein called ASS1, which allows cells to create their own arginine. If the cancer cells can’t get arginine from blood, the...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 21, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Mesothelioma Source Type: news
FDA Fast Tracks UV1 Vaccine Combo for Mesothelioma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track designation to a new therapeutic cancer vaccine. The approval is for UV1 in combination with the immunotherapy drugs Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) to manage malignant pleural mesothelioma that can’t be managed with surgery.
Therapeutic cancer vaccines, unlike preventive vaccines, treat existing cancers. Fast Track expedites the development of drug reviews for severe conditions. This way, the FDA can bring essential new drugs to patients earlier. With this designation, UV1 drug-maker Ultimovacs ASA will interact more frequently with the FDA dur...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 21, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Mesothelioma Source Type: news
Breakthrough New Drug ‘Starves’ Cancer Caused By Asbestos
Mesothelioma is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos in work trades such as construction. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 20, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Victoria Forster, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Arginine Starvation Boosts OS in Mesothelioma
(MedPage Today) -- First-line chemotherapy plus an investigational arginine-depleting agent improved survival in nonepithelioid pleural mesothelioma compared with chemotherapy alone, a randomized trial showed.
For the study's primary endpoint... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - February 16, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Breakthrough for hard-to-treat cancer as scientists hail 'truly wonderful' new drug
Academics in London said the new drug is the first of its type for mesothelioma in 20 years. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer usually linked to asbestos exposure. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Drug offers ‘wonderful’ breakthrough in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer
Medicine used alongside chemotherapy in trials quadrupled three-year survival rates for mesotheliomaScientists have developed a drug to treat mesothelioma, a notoriously hard-to-treat cancer linked to asbestos, in the biggest breakthrough in two decades.Thousands of people are diagnosed with the disease globally every year, which tends to develop in the lungs and ismainly caused by exposure to asbestos at work. It is aggressive and deadly, and has one of the world ’s worst cancer survival rates.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Cancer research Health Medical research Science Society Queen Mary, University of London UK news Source Type: news
New Treatment Brings Hope for Rare, Deadly Cancer Linked to Asbestos, Malignant Mesothelioma
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 -- Mick worked in a factory boiler room in the 1970s, where he was exposed to asbestos.
He didn’t think much of it until 2018, when he began to feel ill and dropped more than 40 pounds.
The diagnosis: malignant... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Early Detection Tests for Mesothelioma Are in Development
Scientists in Australia are developing early detection tests for mesothelioma. The Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute’s new test could potentially save lives. According to ADDRI’s academic and research director Dr. Anthony Linton, the tests will be similar to PCR tests already in use to detect COVID-19.
These new tests can find small amounts of DNA that cause disease. The PCR method, used since the 1980s, allows DNA samples to be studied in a higher level of detail. PCR is the tech behind the beginning of the 1990 Human Genome Project to identify and map human DNA.
“We have identified a...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 13, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Asbestos Exposure Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Doctors/Specialists Mesothelioma Source Type: news
