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Asbestos Risk Combined with Smoking Habit Asks for Double Trouble, Incites Deadly Cancer (PRWEB) April 18, 2013 Newly available conclusions from a Queen’s College study in New York reiterate that two added factors— smoking and/or asbestosis— dramatically increase the risk of developing mesothelioma and other asbestos cancers following asbestos exposure. Lead author Steven B. Markowitz (MD, PhD) is a Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the School of Earth &...

Mesothelioma Law Firm Baron and Budd Repeats Platinum Sponsorship to ADAO International Conference Focused on New Trends for Treatment. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in 2012. At a massive toll of 72,590 female lives, the number is nearly twice that attributed to breast cancer. Over the last 33 years, the rate of new lung cancer cases has surged 106 percent for women, compared to...

While warning of the danger of using light at night, this report, funded by the National Institutes of Health, failed to include reference to the possible benefit of using light bulls that filter out the blue rays known to suppress melatonin, that are available from Photonic Developments LLC at http://www.LowBlueLights.com. University Heights, OH (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 The 260 page report, out this month, from the Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating...

In an effort to help answer questions about the newly mandated GHS guidelines for chemical hazard classifications, SafetySkills® creates a Globally Harmonized System online training course. Oklahoma City, OK (PRWEB) February 19, 2013 SafetySkills® has created a new course titled Globally Harmonized System to assist employees and managers with questions regarding the GHS classification system. Upon completion of this SafetySkills™ online health and safety training learning...

Is there a link between the risk of breast cancer and the working environment? A study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health provides further evidence on this previously neglected research topic, confirming that certain occupations do pose a higher risk of breast cancer than others, particularly those that expose the worker to potential carcinogens and endocrine disrupters. Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer diagnosis among women in industrialized...

Two components of red meat — dietary protein and dietary iron — may combine to form powerful carcinogens, N-nitroso compounds, which increase risk for bladder cancer. Moreover, individuals with reduced ability to reverse the effects of N-nitroso compounds because of a genetic variation in their RAD52 gene could be at particularly high risk. Chelsea Catsburg, a doctoral student at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, presented these data at...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) sent a letter to Congress today in support of the Report on Carcinogens (ROC), an annual scientific study published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) that identifies chemicals that cause cancer. "We addressed key House members, including Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT) who has authored a rider on the Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS)...

Scientists, Physicians, Consumer Advocates, Business Community, Veterans Outraged WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representative Denny Rehberg, (R-MT) authored a rider for the Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill for 2013 that would effectively deny funding for the Report on Carcinogens (ROC) produced by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). A letter signed by organizations representing thousands of parents,...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Evidence was revealed Wednesday at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society that alcohol could perhaps have a carcinogenic substance in it that causes cancer. Silvia Balbo of Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota said at the press conference redOrbit attended that the results of the study are the first to provide evidence that alcohol has carcinogenic effects on living humans. The...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists reported in Philadelphia at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society today that they have identified the first oral carcinogen in smokeless tobacco. Researchers said this is the first identification of a strong oral cavity carcinogen found in smokeless tobacco products. "Our results are very important in regard to the growing use of smokeless tobacco in the world, especially among...