An October 2o, 2015  story in Carrier Management reports a payment to a nuke worker who developed AML at a young age. Overall, he is...

For years, I’ve been barking about the failure of asbestos defendants to look at and invest in science related to asbestos disease. Now,...

Professional medical societies usually are not thought of as radical groups. Therefore, it’s especially notable that a large, global...

Change is a constant in asbestos litigation. One new change for 2015  is four prominent plaintiff firms banding together for the the...

People always seem to be seeking data on the volume and location of asbestos litigation.  A June 2015 paper provides summary information...

At a Perrin asbestos litigation conference a couple of years back, Joe Rice commented on the continuing increases in the filing of  lung...

Peritoneal mesotheliomas remain a focus of the “new and improved”  web sites related to law firms that act for plaintiffs in asbestos...

Harvey Pass at WCLC 2015 The 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer is underway in Denver. The posters and presentations are notable for...

Mesothelioma web sites continue to pick  up the pace of and quality of information disseminated regarding asbestos related diseases. A...

After various delays, the new, more detailed ICD-10 coding takes effect in October. The ICD-10 coding is more detailed than is current...

2014  –  p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code by Sue Armstrong. Goodreads page is here. A useful and learned 2015 review by Prives...

The medical and biology revolutions continue. Theranos now has FDA approval for 1 of its battery of blood tests that are cheap, fast and...

“Museumomics” techniques allow backwards looks into ancient DNA, and re incredible. Applications include looking for better ways to deal...

Researchers continue to generate more and more data and hypotheses regarding mesothelioma in persons with a germline (inherited) BAP1...

Another of the growing number of  studies of cell level reactions of cells to chrysotile and amphibole fibers.  Also, note the fiber type...

Research continues on the molecular pathways that are affected as lungs are invaded particles. One can and should look for parallels...

Big tobacco asserts it’s now trying to use science in a positive way, instead of simply using them to create “doubt.” The story is told...

Tobacco personal injury litigation is continuing and expanding. The broad contours of the litigation are set out in “The Tobacco...

MicroRNA illustrate the incredible pace of new knowledge and change as to molecular biology and cancer. As of 2000, the world’s molecular...

WOW!!!  One test from one drop of blood to see a person’s entire history of viruses with a high degree of reliability. This is not...