asbestos

A study by scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Earthjustice found that most children in the United States use makeup and body products that may contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals. Results are…

Recently qualified as a secretary, Susan Ellis, then aged 23, was excited to take on a position as a personal assistant in a leading firm of architects in Birmingham.It was 1968 and she couldn’t wait to join the world of work, be…

Tiger Brands has recalled baby powder products containing talc after trace levels of asbestos were detected in test samples.…

Dr Janet Leese, a GP, was only 57 when she was told that she was going to die because of something terrible that had happened to her at work.It wasn’t that she had been infected with a disease from a patient, or been driven to exhaustion by…

Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced on Thursday (Aug 11) that it will end sales of its talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, a product which has drawn thousands of consumer safety lawsuits in the US. The company…

Patients with asbestos-triggered cancers could live longer and in less pain due to a breakthrough therapy that slows the growth of tumours. At present just seven per cent of those with the disease, called mesothelioma, survive longer than…

Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, will not be able to avoid a lawsuit that alleges it exposed employees to cancer-causing asbestos while manufacturing its baby powder. On Tuesday, Federal…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will propose on Tuesday to ban one form of asbestos, the first time the federal government has moved to significantly restrict the toxic industrial material since 1989.Under the proposed regulation, the…

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has been tied to a controversial 1960s prison experiment when a group of majority-black Pennsylvania prisoners were injected with asbestos.Documents confirming the company's involvement were…

A common building material, asbestos is the term used to describe a range of naturally growing minerals. Serious diseases, including mesothelioma and lung cancer, can arise decades after coming into contact with asbestos. Biomedical…