Ticking Bombs: Health Department Dropped the Ball

Utah Department of Health has known for at least six years that former employees could contract respiratory diseases, asbestosis, mesothelioma and other forms of lung cancer.

House Committees Probe Iron Range Cancer Rates

St. Paul, Minn. State lawmakers are trying to better understand the rare form of lung cancer called mesothelioma. Two House committees held a joint meeting Tuesday to hear testimony on the disease.

Mesothelioma Survivors and the Immune System

Unlike other cancers that have a typical survival measured in years, the median survival with mesothelioma is often measured in months.

Asbestos: Are More Rules in the Air

Since public health departments are concerned with acute, communicable disease such as flu or E. coli, they do not receive reports concerning asbestos.

Stricter Asbestos Rules in Mines are on Waiting List

The needle-like fibers have repeatedly been detected at the Silver Bay processing plant since 2003, after the agency enhanced its testing program.

Miners Look for Answers on Taconite Exposure

Workers on Minnesota's Iron Range are hoping a new study will explain why so many of them are dying from a rare form of cancer. Men in northeastern Minnesota are getting mesothelioma at twice the rates that would be expected.

Cancer and the Iron Mines

Susan Kepler remembers how she "nearly died inside" when she saw her husband's chest X-ray."We were waiting in the exam room, and it was sitting there in an envelope," said Kepler, "I looked at it, and I couldn't see his left lung at all. I knew something was very, very wrong."

Wife of Va. Shipyard Worker Wins Court Award for Asbestos Death

The widow of a former shipyard worker who died from exposure to asbestos while building Navy aircraft carriers was awarded $5.55M by a Circuit Court jury.

Suit Filed in Calera Air Crash

The Bibb County woman who watched her husband and son die last September in a Calera air show crash has filed a wrongful death suit against the plane's owner and its late pilot's estate.

Woman Sues Over Air Deaths

The woman who watched her husband and son perish in a plane crash at Shelby County air show last September is suing the pilot's estate, the airplane's co-owner and others in Jefferson County Circuit Court.