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Red Wine Helps Mesothelioma Sufferers
Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin in Mesothelioma NewsSufferers won’t need much persuading to give the following remedy technique a go. A daily glass of red wine, that for many years had been encouraged to assist you to slow down heart disease, could help discourage the advancement of mesothelioma cancer, reported by a recently available report from Korea. Even though red wine [...]
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Massive Settlement for Mesothelioma Californian Construction Worker
Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin in UncategorizedA construction worker from California who was diagnosed with Mesothelioma under a year before beginning action has achieved a record mesothelioma settlement against 6 firms who were either manufacturers or distributors of a product known as asbestos cement pipe. The 57 year old had worked in construction in the 70′s and 80′s, installing underground water [...]
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CanBas CBP501 drug for Mesothelioma gets Orphan Drug Designation
Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin in Mesothelioma NewsCBP501, a new treatment for the rare cancer known as mesothelioma has been designated as Orphan Drug Designation. The US Food and Drug Administration has a mission to help the development of drugs that can be used to further the treatment and diagnosis of rare diseases. Providing a drug with ‘orphan’ status means that [...]
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Possible new protein break through for mesothelioma
Posted on December 29, 2011 by admin in Mesothelioma NewsH. Richard Alexander, Jr, M.D. has been working with his colleagues at University of Maryland Medical Center to identify the role that protein appears to be playing in the growth of mesothelioma. In particular, Alexander has been concentrating on abdominal mesothelioma (Peritoneal Mesothelioma) which until now has had no real effective treatment. They have been developing [...]
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Everett, Washington, mesothelioma lawsuit settled for firefighters
Posted on December 28, 2011 by admin in Mesothelioma NewsThe firefighters of Everett have a victory of sorts to celebrate, having won a mesothelioma compensation settlement, perhaps not on the terms that they originally set out for, but a victory none the less. The 50 fire fighters have been battling the claim for four and a half years, and although they originally filed a [...]
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Travelers Cos Insurance company indicates asbestos claims on increase
Posted on December 26, 2011 by admin in UncategorizedAmerica’s largest insurance company, Travelers Cos, has given a significant and clear indication that it does not agree that asbestos related lawsuits and claims are on the decrease by putting a whopping 25% extra into it’s claim reserves this year compared to the previous year. Travelers are not alone either. Both AIG (AIG.N) and Hartford Financial [...]
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Mesothelioma studies at University of Chicago shed some light
Posted on December 24, 2011 by admin in Mesothelioma NewsDoctors and researchers at the University of Chicago have been carrying out genetic studies in the hope of revealing why some Mesothelioma patients have a positive reaction the the chemotherapy drug Pemetrexed (Alimta. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemetrexed for more information), whereas other patients don’t.
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New State of the Art Mesothelioma Research Laboratory
Posted on December 24, 2011 by admin in Mesothelioma NewsA brand new state if the art research lab dedicated to Mesothelioma has just opened, with it’s sole purpose to discover new treatments for malignant pleural mesothelioma. The Pacific Meso Center at Santa Monica Boulevard in LA is the very first such research center in the world, and is a division of the not for [...]
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