Sunday, July 10, 2005

Mesothelioma News 7/10/2005

TCGLaw Group Announces Sponsorship of Mesothelioma Information Website by Paul, Hanley & Harley LLP

All About Malignant Mesothelioma, a website providing consumer information on a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure, has received a sponsorship commitment from a leading law firm in the area of mesothelioma litigation.

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Man's death linked to asbestos-covered walls

A 70-year-old man in Osaka Prefecture died of mesothelioma in 2004 after working for 33 years in a shop with asbestos-covered walls, Asbestos Center said Thursday.

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Workers Exposed To Libby Vermiculite Ore Have High Rate Of Chest Wall Abnormalities

More than one-quarter of tested workers at an Ohio manufacturing plant historically exposed to asbestos-containing vermiculite ore exhibited signs of scarring of the chest wall lining, or pleural plaques, which are usually considered markers of previous exposure to asbestos fibers, according to research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

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Natural asbestos poses unknown danger to town

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - A huge cloud of construction dust blowing across the field where his son played Little League signaled to Lance McMahan that it was time to get out of this fast-growing suburb above Sacramento.

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Death of wife of Kubota employee tied to asbestos

The death of the wife of a former employee of Kubota Corp.'s former Kanzaki factory in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, has been linked to asbestos after the woman died of mesothelioma cancer, it was learned Thursday.

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Japan plans blanket ban on asbestos use, close loopholes by 2008, report says

Japan's Health Ministry plans to revise commercial laws to ban all asbestos use _ and close all legal loopholes _ by 2008, amid growing revelations of deaths linked to the carcinogenic materials, according to a media report.

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Asbestos in Japan may have caused 300 deaths

TOKYO -- One after another, Japanese companies have come forward for the first time to reveal that hundreds of employees who handled asbestos may have died from exposure, prompting worries of widespread contamination by the powerful carcinogen.

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Japan Wakes Up to Asbestos Problem

Japan Wakes Up to Asbestos Problem After Companies Reveal Hundreds of Deaths From Exposure

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Hundreds of deaths spur ministry plan to ban all asbestos use by 2008

The health ministry said Friday it plans to ban all use of asbestos by 2008 after recent announcements that hundreds of workers at various companies have died from diseases related to the toxic unburnable mineral.

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Asbestos-linked death toll rises to 356

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