The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization will host its 21st Annual Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference on Sept. 25 and 26 at the Marriott AC Hotel Arlington National Landing in Arlington, ...

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 ...

A national panel of 15 mesothelioma specialists across surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology and pathology reached a consensus and issued new guidelines for surgery. The experts reviewed 116 ...

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 ...

Soil at a public golf course in Washington, D.C., has tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals. The National Park Service released the data after the Trump administration dumped ...

The peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet retracted a nearly 50-year-old paper on March 25, 2026, that had long been used to defend the safety of cosmetic talc. The journal’s editors confirmed that ...