Asbestos exposure can cause serious illnesses many years after it occurs. Diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestos lung ...

Peter Photakis never imagined that being a teacher would one day lead him into one of South Australia’s most important public ...

Asbestos is a class of minerals that can be used to create durable materials that are heat-, fire- and chemical-resistant. Those properties made it popular in construction, the military and chemical ...

Between 1999 and 2017, Ohio recorded 12,697 asbestos-related deaths. That number includes 2,353 mesothelioma deaths and 996 asbestosis deaths. In Sandusky County alone, 104 people died from ...

In America, asbestos usage reached its peak after the Second World War, when over 1,400 million pounds were used for civilian and military purposes. The U.S. military, in particular, had a strong ...

JM Eagle, a Los Angeles maker of industrial piping, filed a RICO lawsuit Thursday accusing a law firm of fabricating asbestos ...

Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer, most often caused by exposure to asbestos, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Public health advocates sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to compel officials to disclose whether their rapid demolition of the White House's East Wing annex exposed workers or the public to ...

MISSOULA, Mont. -- A medical expert testifying Tuesday in the W.R. Grace trial described his disbelief when, arriving in Libby 10 years ago, he found that people who had never worked at the W. R.

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the U.S. - a mineral that has been tied to cancer and heavily regulated for decades. Now, the ...

With WWII approaching, the U.S. military resorted to asbestos products in an effort to respond to the increasing demands for military equipment. While asbestos became the go-to material of wartime ...

Asbestos has been found in a children’s toy just months after more than 70 schools were shut in a separate incident over fears an arts and craft item contained asbestos.