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Asbestos screenings urge for workers
Sydney :: Australia | 8 days ago
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THE NSW Government is urging people who may have been exposed to asbestos to undergo medical screening. Attorney-General John Hatzistergos yesterday encouraged workers to get tested for asbestos-related illnesses, which are often fatal, during Asbestos...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Occupational safety and health, Mesothelioma, James Hardie, Pneumoconiosis, Lung cancer, Asbestos, Occupational diseases, Pulmonology, Disaster Accident, Health Medical Pharma, Labor
Canada’s Jacksoul singer dies of lung cancer
Ottawa :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility Haydain Neale, the Juno-winning singer-songwriter who was the creative force behind the Canadian R&B group Jacksoul, died of lung cancer on Sunday. The 39-year-old’s death comes just over a week before the release of a new album that was to mark his return...
Tags: Haydain Neale, lung cancer, Songwriters Association of Canada, Jacksoul, Canada, Ottawa, Neale, Juno Award, Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year, Entertainment Culture
Jacksoul front man dies of lung cancer at 39
Toronto :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 9:32PM EST H aydain Neale, the front man for the Juno Award-winning group Jacksoul, has died of cancer at age 39. He died Sunday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, after a seven month battle with lung cancer, the...
Tags: Jacksoul Singer, Songwriter Haydain Neale, lung cancer, Hayden Neale Dead, Mount Sinai Hospital, lead singer, Toronto, jacksoul lead, Canada, Neale, Jacksoul, Haydain Neale, Entertainment Culture, Year of birth missing, Soulmate, Society of Composers Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, Vespa, Human Interest
Morphine boosts spread of cancer
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility They also claimed to have found a drug which counters this effect without interfering with the pain-relieving properties of the opiate (morphine). Laboratory tests suggest that morphine not only strengthened blood vessels but also appeared to make it...
Tags: Seattle, Cancer, Opiate, Naltrexone, Analgesic, Lung cancer, Opioids, Morphine, Methylnaltrexone, Health Medical Pharma, Pain
Deaths/causes | Sept. 10 - Nov. 10 | PUBLIC RECORDS
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Baird, Nina Christina; 86, Paducah, Ky., Nov. 5, intracranial hemorrhage Becker, Norma Gail; 56, Harrisburg, Ill., Nov. 3, acute myelocytic leukemia Berard, Allen Joseph; 87, Evansville, Nov. 6, ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm Blanks, Magnolia; 85,...
Tags: Evansville, myocardial infarction, Ind, respiratory failure, congestive heart, Ill, heart failure, lung cancer, Henderson, renal failure, Cardiovascular diseases, Aging-associated diseases, Cor pulmonale, Medical emergencies, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Health Medical Pharma
Asbestos: A shameful legacy
London :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility 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
New rules coming on coal dust exposure
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility New regulations to reduce miners� exposure to coal dust will be proposed within a couple of weeks, according to the nation�s top mine regulator. Joseph Main, the new head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said he has long believed...
Tags: coal dust, Louisville, Environment, Occupational safety and health, Dust, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Disaster Accident, Industrial hygiene, Pulmonology, Occupational diseases, Coal, Coal mining, Safety engineering, Mining, Lung cancer, Coalworker's pneumoconiosis
Catoctin's miracle man
Frederick :: MD :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility In many ways, it's a miracle Nesbitt is even alive, let alone playing football as a starting defensive back for the unbeaten Cougars. Nesbitt, an optimistic 18-year old with a easy smile, leads a normal, active lifestyle with only one lung. He was born...
Tags: Matthew Nesbitt, Guy Nesbitt, Catoctin, Doug Williams, Frederick, Lung cancer, Pulmonology, allnews
Particles from car brakes can harm your lungs
Bern :: Switzerland | 12 days ago
Credibility Mechanics Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern and Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health, Lausanne, worked with a team of researchers to study such effects. "Brake wear contributes up to 20 percent of...
Tags: Switzerland, Bern, Health Medical Pharma, Environment, Brakes, Brake, Brake pad, Railway brake, Reactive oxygen species, Oxidative stress, Lung cancer
Restaurants, bars skeptical about going smoke-free
Beirut :: Lebanon | 12 days ago
Credibility Partial smoking bans in Lebanon have had some success but are undermined by lack of enforcement and wide acceptance of public smoking, a study by the American University of Beirut (AUB) has found. Researchers at the university’s Department of Health Behavior...
Tags: Lebanon, smoke ban, AUB, Health Ministry, free policy, tobacco control, Beirut, Habits, Smoking ban, Passive smoking, Lung cancer, Tobacco smoking, Tobacco, Smoking, Public health, Health Medical Pharma
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