News tagged with asbestos
Nanotechnology: A risky frontier?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a start-up headquartered in southeastern Minnesota, sits a cube-like machine that throws a mean atomic fastball. At the push of a button, the reactor hurls atoms toward a ...
Researchers assessing health impacts of one of the nation's largest environmental disasters
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Over nearly a century, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, MT, have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, leading to markedly higher rates of lung disease and autoimmune disorders, and causing to ...
Study shows how carbon nanotubes can affect lining of the lungs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are being considered for use in everything from sports equipment to medical applications, but a great deal remains unknown about whether these materials cause respiratory ...
Nanotube risk assessment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Italian scientists suggest that we need a much more detailed toxicological approach to hazard assessment before judgement regarding the long-term safety of carbon nanotubes can be made. They outline their results in the International Jo ...
1 in 8 with lung cancer show asbestos exposure, study finds
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Pleural plaques, or a thickening of lung membranes due to asbestos exposure, were found in one in eight lung cancer patients, according to medical research papers jointly released Monday by 12 medical institutions in Japan.
SKorean firms recall asbestos-tainted baby powder
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Three South Korean manufacturers said Thursday they are recalling baby powder products after health authorities announced that they contain cancer-causing asbestos.
Scientists study how asbestos fibers trigger cancer in human cells
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Ohio State University scientists believe they are the first in the world to study the molecular underpinnings of cancer by probing individual bonds between an asbestos fiber and human cells.
