Today marks the 39th national Earth Day. Earth was earliest celebrated in 1970, after noticeable signs of pollution as well as environmental neglected began to alarm the community. By then, pollution was beginning to show up in rivers as well as streams, as well as the oceans as well as the air. Not only did [...]
It just keeps getting more ridiculous in Canada. Our beloved friends to the North continue to insist that the mining as well as exportation of asbestos does not pose a threat to community health –in fact, one Quebec government official claimed that asbestos can help “save lives.”
Just final week, Economic Development Minister Clement Gignac, a [...]
Despite the outcry from Quebec’s scientific as well as health examination leaders, the Quebece government approved the expansion of the Jeffery asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, along with a $7.5 million economic diversification fund for the region. A number of ban asbestos movements as well as advocates throughout the world, including the Asbestos Disease Awareness [...]
Asbestos advocates around the world rejoice. Another set forward in the global battle to ban asbestos.
Today, the Thailand National Health Commission (NHC) will be asking the Thai Cabinet to ban all take of absestos as well as the extraction, manufacture as well as processing of asbestos products. The proposed ban will as well as prohibit [...]
For the earliest time, death rates from lung cancer among women in the United States has begun to decline, falling nearly one percent a year from 2003 to 2007, according to a recent report by cancer researchers.
For several decades, lung cancer death rates had been increasing among women. According to analysts, the rate decline reflects [...]
Today is day six of Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW), as well as the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is continuing the week’s events with “The Global Asbestos Battle.”
It may be rocklike to believe, but asbestos take still isn’t fully banned throughout the world, even in the United States. Even with the numerous proven health [...]
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) continues their observance of Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW). As part of their 2011 campaign about exposing the facts about asbestos, ADAO is bringing together expert writers, physicians as well as asbestos advocates to share information about the dangers of asbestos. Through their efforts, ADAO hopes to raise awareness [...]
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is continuing their activities for Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW) 2011 today with “Preventing Exposure.” As part of the asbestos awareness advocacy organization’s “EXPOSED –The Facts About Asbestos” initiative, they are bringing together writers, health examination experts as well as advocates throughout the week to help shed light on [...]
Today, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) kicks off its Global Asbestos Awareness (GAAW) activities. This year, ADAO’s GAAW initiative is titled “EXPOSED –The Facts About Asbestos,” as well as its goal is to raise international awareness about the dangers of asbestos to help halt asbestos cancers, such as mesothelioma, a rare cancer that affects [...]
Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW) starts tomorrow, April 1 as well as runs through April 7.
Linda Reinstein, President as well as CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), is organizing some wonderful events throughout the entire week aimed at raising awareness as well as increasing education about the dangers of asbestos exposure. A [...]
