A Mesothelioma Victim?s Fight for Swift Justice
Source: Belleville News-Democrat
November 16, 2004 4Article
November 17, 2004 4Article
Source: The Telegraph
November 17, 2004 4Article
November 22, 2004 Lindau?s case is settled
Source: The Madison County Record, November 22, 2004 4Article

International Symposium Will Focus On Curing Mesothelioma
Source: BioSPace.com - October 6, 2004
A lethal, but long- overlooked cancer will take a major step out of the shadows next week, as The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation convenes the First International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma. 4Article

Daschle Agrees to $140 Billion Asbestos Relief Fund
Source: Bloomberg - September 16, 2004
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle accepted a Republican proposal limiting a trust fund for asbestos victims to $140 billion to break a deadlock that has stalled the legislation in Congress. 4Article

Experimental Surgery Gives Cancer Patient Hope
Source: TheBostonChannel.com - September 16, 2004
Nine months ago, Karen Grant was diagnosed with a cancer that doctors said was untreatable, but an experimental surgery gave her a sliver of hope. 4Article

Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) seeks to serve as the united voice for all asbestos victims.

TV Ad Calls For Asbestos Bill To Fail

ASBESTOS legislation falls apart in the Senate Article. Read Article

Author of ?Asbestos Bill? pessimistic on its passage. Read Article

Senator renews her efforts to ban asbestos. Read Article

Research is continually being conducted to learn more about mesothelioma and its physical consequences as well as the effectiveness of various treatments. Keep checking here to find updated information on studies that can help you deal with this disease.

Environmental Working Group new study shows that 10,000 people a year are dying from asbestos and the death toll is rising. See www.ewg.org/reports/asbestos/ for full report. Read Article

New study reviews novel approach to control inflammation caused mesothelioma. Read Article

Fund would aid asbestos victims But few expect the Senate to approve the $114 billion measure. Read Article

Meet the Chemistry professor that developed Alimta, the new cancer drug. Read Article

Companies have paid out an estimated $70 billion on some 730,000 asbestos personal injury claims, making it the most expensive type of litigation in U.S. history, according to the RAND Institute for Civil Justice. Read Article

Finding his strength. New Mexico Rep. Ray Ruiz was known a man of might, from the basketball court to the Roundhouse. Now, he's battling cancer and finding new verve in his quest to help ailing lab workers. Read Article

A jury has awarded $6 million to a Pennsylvania couple for injuries the husband received after repeated exposure to asbestos. Read Article

American Cancer Society

New Drug Nearly Doubles Survival Time For Mesothelioma Patients Pain, Other Symptoms Also Eased For Many
2002/08/20

Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
This is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating mesothelioma as a life-ending disease.

Proposals aim to limit rising asbestos claims
May 28, 2003

The Cleveland Plain Dealer describes the current effort to ban asbestos litigation and force all claimants to recover from a limited "trust fund." A mesothelioma victim would have to meet strict requirements for exposure, and then would receive a fixed sum of $750,000, even though jury awards for mesothelioma victims average $6.5 million. Although the trust fund is meant to address the asbestos problem over the next 30 years, as currently proposed not one dime goes to the medical research necessary to prevent the suffering in the first place.

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The Mayo Clinic
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