As readers of this blog know, asbestos is a cancer-causing material that has been used throughout many buildings and products for the past hundred years or so all over the world. This means that working in areas where buildings are destroyed or in certain jobs may...
Mesothelioma is a malignant type of cancer that affects the outside of the lungs. Although there have been a number of remediation measures put into place to try to remove asbestos, the fibrous materials that cause mesothelioma, from workplaces, the sad truth of the...
When you choose to wear the uniform, you also choose to accept a level of risk to your life. You know you may be placed in harm’s way to defend the United States of America and her interests. But you may also have been placed at risk of dangers which were never part...
It is not simply U.S. Navy veterans, construction workers, machinists, industrial workers and firefighters who are at risk of a mesothelioma diagnosis. It also is their families and anyone who has regular contact with them. Why? Because the latter group often is...
Mesothelioma is an aggressive disease that steals years away from hardworking individuals and affects too many men and women who have worked in the greater Seattle metropolitan area. One of its causes is exposure to asbestos, and long-term exposures can result in the...
