Alfacell Provides Update on ONCONASE(R) Malignant Mesothelioma Phase IIIb Trial
Alfacell Corporation today provided an update on the status of its international, confirmatory Phase IIIb malignant mesothelioma trial for ONCONASE� , the Company's lead investigational drug candidate:
ACT man starts endurance ski record
A Canberra man aims to break the world record for skiing continuously - 200 hours and eight minutes - to raise money help sufferers of asbestosis.
ACT man starts endurance ski record
Nick Willey describes his attempt to break a world record for endurance skiing - an eight-and-a-half day ultra-marathon - as being "a bit crazy". The 33-year-old father of two from Canberra aims to break the Guinness Book world record for skiing continuously of 200 hours and eight minutes.
'Within months he had gone . . .'
THE family of a Rastrick man who died 20 years after working with asbes-tos coated pipes say they have lost a loving family man who had everything to live for. (02/09/2005 10:05:30)
In scholarships, sweat the small stuff
Those smaller awards can really add up, and there's less competition for them.
Death rate from rare cancer 9.5 times higher near plant
OSAKA (Kyodo) The risk of dying from mesothelioma, a rare type of cancer linked to asbestos, is 9.5 times higher than the national average among people who lived within 500 meters of a now-defunct Kubota Corp. asbestos plant in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, a professor said Saturday.
Japanese editorial excerpts -4-
_ Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
"An Environmental Time Bomb" In Japan
Tokyo ignored asbestos for years. For decades asbestos has been known to cause cancer in those who inhale its tiny fibers. That has triggered restrictions on its use and, ultimately, thousands of lawsuits in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Asbestos fears deepen in Japan with reports of widespread household use
Health fears over asbestos deepened in Japan as a news report revealed that one in five houses uses roofing tiles containing the material.
LEAD: FY 2006 general-account budget to total 85 tril. yen
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