The company helped spur a public health crisis through its deceptive marketing and aggressive sales of prescription opioids.
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A range of jobs and hobbies are risk factors for lung disease.
Existing laws and regulations failed to prevent asbestos contamination of mulch. What’s missing is mandatory certification of recycled products so users can be sure they’ve been tested and are safe.
One of the earliest known references to asbestos may come from Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle and his successor at the Lyceum in Athens.
Exposure to asbestos can cause the same cancer in dogs as it does in humans. Recent cases of asbestos-contaminated mulch highlight the need to better protect our pets.
The most important factor for disease risk is exposure – you actually have to inhale asbestos fibres to be at risk of disease. But asbestos needs to be treated with caution.
Raac and asbestos in schools show that ‘official’ declarations of safety are not acceptable to families.
While evidence grows about the impact of asbestos exposure on teachers and other school workers, the risk to schoolchildren remains worryingly under-reported and under-researched.
Susie Dee directs this dark and spare new play by Mary Anne Butler for Red Stitch.
Despite the popular belief that vitamin E and beta carotene supplements help prevent heart disease and cancer, the latest research suggests they do not – but the supplements do have potential risks.
New research on cat and dog health may provide clues on how to prevent and treat cancer in humans.
Those directly exposed to toxic dust and trauma on and after 9/11 carry with them a generation of chronic health conditions, which are placing them at higher risk during the pandemic and as they age.
More 9/11 responders died from physical and mental health issues after the terrorist attacks than on the day itself. And survivors are still suffering 20 years later.
American ambivalence about government has left the courts to play an outsized role responding to public health crises like lead poisoning, asbestos-related illnesses and now, the coronavirus pandemic.
What lessons can Australia learn from tackling asbestos to manage this latest preventable occupational hazard?
All asbestos should be removed from all schools.
Asbestos litigation is the number one source of tort claims in the US, with many people decrying the filing of so many claims. But there’s a reason the claims persist. Asbestos isn’t going anywhere.
Taxing a food product like meat, which has been entrenched in our culture for so long, is silly. We should let the market evolve and allow consumers to make their own choices.
Asbestos is not a thing of the past, far from it – it’s use is exploding in the developing world and many others are still at risk.
We already know the solutions to stem the exploitation of migrant workers, and they involve changes at both the employer and government level.
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Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Chair in Health Effectiveness, University of Stirling
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Research Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney
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Professor of Accounting, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Partnership Facilitator, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Epidemiology, Curtin University
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Research Officer, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Curtin University
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Clinical Professor of Medicine and Population Health, The University of Western Australia
