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MesoLink.org Mesothelioma News, August 2004:

(08/31/04) August, 2004 | Alimta Receives Second Approval This Year From FDA The Food and Drugs Administration has granted the second approval this year to the drug Alimta, hailed earlier this year as a miracle drug in the search for a cure for the deadly disease mesothelioma.

(08/30/04) August, 2004 | Untested Demolition Method Banned By EPA The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently put a ban on an untested demolition method that was being used... This followed claims that the demolition procedure increased the risks of asbestos exposure.

(08/27/04) August, 2004 | Oak Ridge High School Cleaned Up To Minimize On Asbestos Risks An El Dorado Hills school, Oak Ridge High School, has received an external clean-up in order to minimize on the risk of asbestos dust exposure resulting from the natural asbestos contained in the soil.

(08/26/04) August, 2004 | New Zealanders Set To Sue Aussie Asbestos Companies New Zealanders that have been affected by asbestos products manufactured and sold by Australian companies are waiting to find out whether they may be eligible to sue the companies responsible

(08/25/04) August, 2004 | Funding For Victims To Continue, States James Hardie Australian manufacturer, James Hardie, has been in the limelight on a regular basis recently, unfortunately in connection with payouts on the millions of dollars worth of mesothelioma claims made against the company.

(08/24/04) August, 2004 | $430 Million Asbestos Claim Fund Set Up By Pfizer Pfizer Inc. has revealed that it will be settling all lawsuits filed against it and its subsidiary, Quigley Co. with a $430 million fund. This is to settle over two hundred thousand claims that are filed against the company...

(08/23/04) August, 2004 | UK Widow Wins Compensation Claim The widow of a victim that died from mesothelioma has been told she has won a ‘large amount’ of her £150,000 claim for negligence from her husband’s former employer...

(08/20/04) August, 2004 | Mesothelioma Victim Urges James Hardie To Face Up To Responsibilities A 56-year-old Australian mesothelioma victim has urged products manufacturer, James Hardie, to face up to its responsibilities and pay the compensation that is due to mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease victims.

(08/19/04) August, 2004 | Australian Asbestos Victims Call For Certification Of Asbestos Presence In Homes The Asbestos Victims Association and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union have teamed up with Australian asbestos-related disease victims in order to demand an increase of awareness...

(08/18/04) August, 2004 | Scottish Campaign Group Presses For Action Clydeside Action on Asbestos, a Scottish campaign group against asbestos is soon to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, and plans to mark the occasion by insisting that the Scottish Parliament process and pays out...

(08/17/04) August, 2004 | Environmental Protection Agency To Test Sites For Asbestos Exposure It has been reported the US Environmental Protection Agency will commence tests in to asbestos exposure levels at two sites next month.

(08/16/04) August, 2004 | High Hopes For New Mesothelioma Treatment There are a number of treatments currently used to try and treat mesothelioma patients... The newest addition to these treatments is photodynamic therapy, which is though to be far less traumatic and invasive for patients.

(08/13/04) August, 2004 | $502.5 Million Settle Figure Approved For Insurer It has been reported that a bankruptcy court has approved a $502.5 million full and final settlement figure for St Paul Travelers Companies. The insurers have stated that the settlement applies to claims made against it...

(08/12/04) August, 2004 | Senator Frist Casts A Shadow On Daschle Fund Plan US Senator Bill Frist has contacted Senator Tom Daschle by letter, stating that his trust fund proposal will not work. Daschle’s asbestos compensation fund proposal was based upon a fund of $140 billion or more...

(08/11/04) August, 2004 | New Bill Could Mean Long Delays In Payout The new trust fund bill being proposed by Senators Frist and Daschle is again concern amongst mesothelioma victims and their families: the concerns are not just financial, but also relating to the waiting times involved...

(08/10/04) August, 2004 | Mesothelioma Still To Peak In Most Countries Although the number of mesothelioma cases has been continually rising over the past decade or so, many countries have reported that the levels of mesothelioma cases within their particular country have not yet peaked.

(08/09/04) August, 2004 | Mesothelioma Findings A Success For 2004 Although we are only just past the halfway mark for 2004, this year has proven to be a success in terms of mesothelioma findings so far.

(08/06/04) August, 2004 | Increase In Resources For Mesothelioma Victims The past few years have seen a dramatic rise in resources for mesothelioma victims, with counsellors, cancer centers, research and support groups and legal services being made available to both victims and their families.

(08/05/04) August, 2004 | Concerns Over Education Of Mesothelioma ...countries that are expecting a mesothelioma epidemic over the next ten or twenty years, have expressed concerns over the lack of education about this deadly cancer amongst professionals...

(08/04/04) August, 2004 | Claims Of Lawsuit Bias By Medics A Medical publication, Academic Radiology, has reported that some physicians and radiologists that are responsible for giving information on x-ray findings in mesothelioma lawsuits could actually be biased.

(08/03/04) August, 2004 | Oil Companies Sued For Asbestos-Related Death Several major international and US oil companies are facing legal action as a family has decided to sue for wrongful death.

(08/02/04) August, 2004 | James Hardie Settle Mesothelioma Case Out Of Court Stewart Beckworth from Mornington Peninsula, who discovered that he had mesothelioma early this year, stated that he contacted James Hardie Industries to discuss the topic of compensation...

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