What is Asbestos?
Asbestos is a term for several commonly found fibrous magnesium-silicate minerals. Due to their durable and versatile nature, asbestos materials were used widely in construction and manufacturing for most of the 20th century. Today, it is widely understood that asbestos is an extremely harmful substance. However, this was not always [...]
Factory workers and miners are sometimes exposed to dangerous effects of asbestos without their knowledge. Prolonged exposure may cause a form of cancer that is known as mesothelioma. It is difficult to diagnose this disease in its initial stages. People are absolutely helpless when they are diagnosed with mesothelioma in its advanced stage.
Patients need to [...]
It is common knowledge that smoking is hazardous to one?s health. Additionally, many people know that exposure to asbestos is very dangerous and can lead to the development of the disease mesothelioma. What many people do not know, however, is that when smoking and asbestos exposure are combined, both of the harmful elements work together [...]
The health risks associated with asbestos exposure have been known since the turn of the 20th Century. Dr H. Montague Murray of London, found asbestos fibers in a deceased 33 yr-old asbestos worker in 1900. In 1917, Dr. Henry K. Pancoast of the University of Pennsylvania medical school, found lung scarring in five asbestos-factory workers. [...]
What they did not tell you about 9/11!
A Latest study by the U.S. government provides the recent evidence of a systematic cover-up of the health toll from pollution following the 9/11 catastrophe, which doctors dread will cause more deaths than the attacks themselves.
Belfast Telegraph says, The Bush administration witheld evidence of increasing danger [...]
April 2006 - The MACK Group, LLC (website http://www.mackgrp.com) completed the asbestos abatement of the former Steel Craft factory located in Newark, New Jersey. The project consisted primarily of the asbestos abatement of 100,000 sf of asbestos roofing and flashing. Asbestos materials were removed from the structures prior to the demolition of the former factory. [...]
April 2006 - The MACK Group, LLC (website http://www.mackgrp.com) completed the asbestos abatement of the former Steel Craft factory located in Newark, New Jersey. The project consisted primarily of the asbestos abatement of 100,000 sf of asbestos roofing and flashing. Asbestos materials were removed from the structures prior to the demolition of the former factory. [...]
Many homes still have asbestos products in them, these range from heaters and fire places to roof tiles. Children play with Asbestos on a daily basis and are exposing themselves to a highly dangerous product that will almost certainly cause cancer and death later in life, if the exposure is high enough. It is reported [...]
May 2006 - The MACK Group, LLC (website http://www.mackgrp.com ) recently completed the asbestos abatement of five (5) buildings located in Belmar, New Jersey. The five buildings consisted of three houses and a one story and three story commercial building. Asbestos abatement needed to be completed on the 5 buildings prior to their demolition. The [...]
For centuries, asbestos was used. Thousands of workers were exposed to the risks of this mineral that has several beneficial properties, but on the other hand can lead people to death.
First, the relation between asbestos and death of some workers wasn’t made clear. The Greek geographer Strabo and the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder [...]
