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Two top former shareholders in the Swiss building materials firm Eternit went on trial Thursday for alleged negligence leading to more than 2,000 deaths in Italy from asbestos-related diseases. Victims' relatives flocked the courthouse in Turin, northern...
Tags: Italy, Eternit, Turin, Fibro, Composite materials, Asbestos, Building materials, Law Crime, Stephan Schmidheiny
One of the world's largest trials into asbestos-related crimes opened in Turin on Thursday, drawing thousands to the northern Italian city. Two former heads of Swiss cement giant Eternit have been charged with creating an environmental hazard and wilfully...
Tags: Stephan Schmidheiny, Italy, trial opened, Italian Eternit Genova, Turin, Asbestos, Eternit, Law Crime, Fibro, Mesothelioma
a tickle in the chest and slight pain on breathing. Then, within a matter of months, the sufferer was in agony, gasping for air and eventually suffocating to death as a vicious cancer attacked their lungs waiting for the final lingering, inevitable end...
Tags: pleural plaques, Cape Asbestos, cape factories, Gordon Sanders, asbestos fibres, lung cancers, Jimmy Parrish, Dennis Gaffney, Hart's Lane, lane estate, United Kingdom, London, Mesothelioma, Pleural disease, Fibro, Lung cancer, Asbestos and the law, Asbestos, Occupational diseases, Pulmonology
Coming out about health may sound like a funny title, but this is no laughing matter. Fibromyalgia is a very real condition. It effects more people than anyone knows, and more women than men have the condition. It takes more tests than cancer to detect....
Tags: health, fibro, fibromyalgia, coming out, pain, tired, lycra, cymbalta, magic wand, hurt, walk, run, crawl, life