ADAO’s Push for Asbestos Ban Gains Momentum: Join the Advocacy
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) continues its strong advocacy for a nationwide ban on the use of asbestos. Though the use of this carcinogen has been limited over the past several decades, it still poses a significant risk to workers and their...
Today Is Mesothelioma Awareness Day
Will you join us in wearing blue today? September 26 is Mesothelioma Awareness Day. On this day every year we honor and support the victims of this terrible disease and their families and loved ones. We use this day to educate people about Mesothelioma, a...
EPA Proposes Ban on Chrysotile Asbestos
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed following 70 other countries by banning the most common form of asbestos, chrysotile, from import and use here. Through most of the twentieth century asbestos was used in building and industrial...
Brigham Mesothelioma Researchers Investigate Women’s Better Survival Rates
A recent study authored by researchers from the International Mesothelioma Program of the Brigham & Women’s Hospital (IMP) and others has examined the correlation of estrogen and the incidence and survival of mesothelioma. The article describing the study,...
