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Asbestos may have been banned from use in the UK since 1999, but the hazardous material continues to pose a serious danger to the population. Our lungs are the interface between blood and air. Their ...

Michael Mihalik had a secret. As he celebrated Christmas with his four children, he thought it was probably his last. So in between the food and presents, he told them elaborate goodbyes in his head.

The health risks caused by damaged asbestos are so high that it has a disease, asbestosis, named after it. Asbestosis is a type of pulmonary fibrosis, where high levels of exposure to asbestos fibers ...

Asbestos is a class of minerals that can be used to create durable materials that are heat-, fire- and chemical-resistant. Those properties made it popular in construction, the military and chemical ...

Other evidence suggests that the lungs of Libby's residents are especially damaged, both those of people who worked in the mine and those who did not. In 2017, the CDC published a study showing that ...

Asbestos is still claiming the lives of many of our veterans nationwide, after it became of critical importance to the U.S. Armed Forces, especially during scarce wartime years. In the early 1920s, ...

In 31 years of working for LTV and then Erie Mining, Bill Stodola said, he missed only one day of work. He was always healthy and active until shortly before he retired in 1999. Then he started having ...