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Asbestos News from Coast to Coast
Merlin Olsen Dead at 69 Merlin Olsen, the Pro Football Hall of Famer who had a distinguished career as a member of the Los Angeles Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome” defensive squad in the 1960s, died earlier this week from mesothelioma. Olsen went on to television acting and a sports broadcasting career after he retired from the [...]
Judge Declines CSR Demerger Bid Due to Asbestos Funds
A judge in Australia ruled against CSR Limited’s bid to break its sugar and foods group away from the construction materials portion of the company due to concerns that the new firm would not be able to meet their previous commitments to victims of asbestos exposure. Executives with the company stated that they had covered [...]
Actor, Football Great Merlin Olsen Diagnosed with Mesothelioma
Merlin Olsen, an actor and football player best known for his role as Jonathon Garvey in Little House on the Prairie (a series about a pioneer family set in the 19th century in Minnesota), recently revealed that exposure to asbestos when he was young led to his contracting mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a rare and surprisingly [...]
Asbestos Removal Completed in New Jersey Firehouse
After a renovation project that took seven years and cost nearly four million dollars, firemen from the South Orange, New Jersey, fire department moved back into their historic firehouse. One of the reasons that the work was so lengthy and costly was the discovery of asbestos in the walls. South Orange village treasurer and chief [...]
DuPont Sued in Delaware for Argentina Asbestos Injuries
DuPont Co., a giant multinational operating in 70 countries providing products for agriculture, apparel, communications, electronics, home and construction, nutrition, safety and transportation, is being sued in Delaware for asbestos-related illnesses incurred by three workers from its former Argentina nylon fabricating plant. DuPont, which has corporate headquarters in Wilmington, operated a plant in Mercedes, Argentina [...]
Osteopontin Reveals the Early Stages of Pleural Mesothelioma
Medical Research News Researchers at New York University School of Medicine and Wayne State University have found a molecule that reveals the early stages of pleural mesothelioma, a chest cancer caused by asbestos. The finding opens the way to a blood test for the disease, according to a new study published in the Oct. 13 [...]
