ADAO's 21st Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference takes place Sept. 25-26 in Arlington, Virginia, with sessions on research, treatment, policy and asbestos law.

Priscilla W. was working as a paralegal while experiencing persistent stomach problems, including ascites, a buildup of fluid in the abdomen. By March 2024, her symptoms had become serious enough that ...

Most of what you’ll read about mesothelioma comes from doctors and researchers. It’s accurate and necessary. But it can’t tell you what the days actually feel like. This book is different. It features ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration released more than 170,000 pages of records this week that document air quality conditions around the World Trade Center site after the September 11 ...

The School District of Philadelphia is moving more than 400 students and 90 staff members out of Kensington High School after a contractor disturbed asbestos during a heating and cooling system ...

A clinical trial testing a new type of cell therapy for mesothelioma is actively recruiting patients at sites across the country, including Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. This is an ...

Johnson & Johnson is proposing a $5.5 billion settlement to resolve approximately 76,000 claims and could close out more than a decade of litigation against the company. The lawsuits claim its ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, will cease operations on Aug. 31, 2026, ending 25 years of care for a community still living with the consequences of one of the worst ...

A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $32 million to the family of Maria Lozano. The lawsuit accused the company of manufacturing a defective product and failing to warn consumers ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled more than 121,000 children’s squeeze toys after testing found tremolite asbestos in the sand inside them. The toys, sold under the Orb Funkee brand ...

A Minnesota couple has won $10.2 million after a jury found that decades of exposure to asbestos-contaminated talc products caused the husband’s mesothelioma diagnosis. The verdict is believed to be ...