Mesothelioma Cancer

Chicago based Asbestos Litigation, Personal Injury Law Firm of Cooney Conway Launches New Website Dedicated to Helping Mesothelioma Victims

Chicago, Illinois (Vocus) March 10, 2010 – Mesothelioma is one of the most severe forms of personal injury a person can endure, as it comes with a great deal of physical, emotional, financial and legal suffering for both the victim and their families.

In an effort to make legal counsel and information more readily available to the public, the leading & National Mesothelioma lawyers of Cooney & Conway have established a mesothelioma answers portal to educate the public. The portal consists of free information on:

•    Lung Cancer
•    Malignant Mesothelioma
•    Causes of Mesothelioma
•    Asbestosis
•    Peritoneal mesothelioma
•    Mesothelioma Lawyer Resource
•    Symptoms of Mesothelioma
•    Mesothelioma Treatment
•    Mesothelioma Prognosis… Read more…

June Hancock lived in the shadow of the J W Roberts asbestos factory at Armley.

For decades it spewed asbestos dust over the community. It closed in the 1950s, but more than 50 years later its activities are still causing deaths.

Mrs Hancock’s mother died of mesothelioma, an incurable cancer of the lung caused by asbestos. Mrs Hancock then contracted the disease in 1994 and sued the factory’s owners Turner Newall.

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The disease usually kills within 12 to 18 months of diagnosis.

Despite delays by the company’s lawyers Mrs Hancock lived long enough to win her case, opening the doors to compensation for hundreds of victims. She died in 1997. The June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund was established in her memory.

The British Lung Foundation is working with the fund to support new research which could lead to better treatments.

Dr Stefan Marciniak, who heads a research group at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded a two-year grant worth £118,839 for research into mesothelioma…. Read more…

Australian scientists looked for the reason why people with Hepatitis C often go on to develop diabetes, and they made an unexpected discovery.

The heightened risk of type 2 diabetes was thought to be linked to fat build-up in the liver caused by their Hep C, but tests on people with the blood-borne virus found something else was awry.

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research study confirmed the 29 study participants all had ‘high insulin resistance’ – a precursor to diabetes – but the problem was traced to their muscle and not their livers…. Read more…

ETALING JAYA, March 8 (Bernama) — Approximately one in 10 adults worldwide suffer from some form of kidney damage and every year millions die as a result of kidney failure caused by diabetes.

Kidney failure is the final stage of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a serious condition where the kidneys could no longer rid the body of wastes.

CKD is present when individuals have an increase in the excretion of albumin in the urine or a major decrease in kidney function.

In Malaysia more than 3,500 people develop end stage renal failure every year, giving rise to the number of patients requiring dialysis.

According to the president of Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN) Dr Philip N. Jeremiah, CKD affects about eight to 10 per cent of the population and currently the number of patients requiring dialysis in Malaysia is growing by 5 to 7 per cent annually…. Read more…

U.S. foreign policy should should rely more on diplomacy and “soft power,” Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a speech at Kansas State University on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports. ”U.S. foreign policy is still too dominated by the military - too dependent upon the generals and admirals who lead our major overseas commands and not enough on the State Department,” Mullen said, the AFP reports.

The news service continues: “Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary [Rodham] Clinton ‘have called for more funding and more emphasis on our soft power, and I could not agree with them more, the admiral said” (2/3).

In a “shift in thinking, Mullen said in his speech that policymakers now and in the future should consider the U.S. military not as a last-resort solution in a crisis, but as part of early American responses to conflicts and disasters,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “‘Military forces are some of the most flexible and adaptable tools available to policymakers,’ Mullen said. ‘Before a shot is even fired, we can bolster a diplomatic argument, support a friend or deter an enemy.’ Mullen emphasized that military power must be used alongside other government tools,” the newspaper writes (Barnes, 3/4)…. Read more…

That’s why they are excited about new technology that will provide doctors at Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center with swift and detailed information about a patient’s condition before arriving at the hospital.

When firefighters are called to assist someone with a heart attack, they need only connect the person to a Medtronic Lifepak monitor and press a button to communicate a patient’s condition to hospital staff.

Alerts are sent to doctors’ smartphones and hospital computers. Included is a detailed chart of the patient’s heart rhythms. By the time firefighters deliver the patient to the hospital, the hospital is prepared. Hospital staff can bypass a diagnosis and begin treating the patient when he or she is rolled into the emergency room or cardiac catheterization lab.

Previously, firefighters described the patient’s condition to a doctor who would assess the patient upon arrival, slowing down the treatment process.

“The earlier we open up the artery, the more muscle we can save,” said Manoj Rawal, chief cardiologist at Del E. Webb. “It can make a huge difference.”

Stan Garretson, 74, says he is proof.

The Nebraska resident was visiting his sister in Surprise recently when he awakened with chest pains. Garretson’s wife, Ellen, called 911.

Four firefighters from Station 301 in east Surprise arrived and hooked Garretson up to the monitor and hospital staff received notifications seconds later, said Nathan Lewis, pre-hospital coordinator for Del E. Webb.

Everyone was ready when Garretson arrived at the hospital on Feb. 24. The new technology meant Garretson got the most necessary treatment about 15 minutes earlier than he would have in the past, Rawal said…. Read more…

Although an extra cup of coffee may make you feel like your heart is racing, researchers have found that drinking more coffee on a daily basis reduces your chances of dangerous irregular heartbeat, according to a Kaiser Permanente study.

The study included 130,054 adults who drank four or more cups of coffee per day. The results showed that compared to non-coffee drinkers, they lowered their risk of being hospitalized for irregular heartbeats by 18 percent. Researchers also concluded that even those who drank a lower amount of coffee (1-3 cups a day) were still 7 percent less likely to have irregular heartbeats…. Read more…

A vaccine against mesothelioma, a cancerassociated with exposure to asbestos, has shown early promise in its first clinical trial.

The experimental vaccine is an example ofdendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy, in which the body’s own immune system is harnessed to target and destroy cancer cells.

In the vaccine, a sample of the patient’s ‘dendritic’ immune cells are mixed with proteins taken from their tumour.

When implanted back into the patient, these cells can then activate other elements of the patient’s immune system, known as T-cells, and encourage them to attack and destroy the tumour.

Researchers at Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands have previously shown that DC vaccinesbring about an anti-tumour response in mice and decided to test the technique in humans.

They enrolled ten people who had recently been diagnosed with a form of mesothelioma called ‘malignant pleural’ mesothelioma, and who had been previously treated with chemotherapy.

The team took a sample of dendritic cells from each patient’s blood, and exposed them to proteins from their tumours.

The dendritic cell samples were also exposed to a ‘marker’ protein called keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH).

Patients then received three injections of their ‘activated’ dendritic cells over a two-week period.

Publishing their findings in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the researchers revealed that all ten patients had antibodies to the KLH marker in their blood, confirming that the vaccines had brought about an immune response.

Further tests on four of the patients’ tumours revealed that three of the tumours had got smaller, although this could not be conclusively or directly linked to the vaccine…. Read more…

Suzette Allinger, 56, remembers the day in July of 2008 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Allinger, of the Creve Coeur area, had gone to see Dr. Alan Londe, a general surgeon, after she’d had severe breast pain. His diagnosis of cancer couldn’t have come at a worst time.

Allinger, whose husband of 20 years, Justin, had been laid off from retail management the year before. They had no private health insurance.

But with a part-time job in the cosmetics field, she couldn’t qualify for Missouri Health Net, Medicaid or other government programs.

“As I was crying a bucket of tears, Dr. Londe told me to take a deep breath and talk to Gateway to Hope,” she said.

That suggestion changed her life.

Londe is one of many doctors and other medical providers who donate services and products to the non-profit Gateway to Hope.

Based in Creve Coeur, the organization arranges no-cost comprehensive medical care for breast cancer patients who lack sufficient financial resources or insurance, but are ineligible for assistance through state and federal programs.

It was founded in 2005 by Dr. David Caplin, of Frontenac, a plastic/reconstructive surgeon, and Dr. Marlys Schuh of Creve Coeur, an oncology breast surgeon.

Caplin recalls a patient who was the catalyst for establishing the organization.

“This young woman was the sole breadwinner for her kids and disabled husband. She made enough so she wasn’t qualified for Medicaid but couldn’t afford insurance,” he said…. Read more…

How does a DUI attorney keep their client out of jail when they smell like booze and have the shakes early in the morning?

Montreal alcohol rehabilitation educates New York DUI lawyers-client’s who can’t stop drinking need 2 before DUI court.

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