Because of damage to your health from asbestos Medicaid may be a viable resource for you. Although health-damaging asbestos exposure can take years to emerge, you may not yet qualify for Medicare when you become ill. Because of the debilitating effects of asbestos exposure, such as malignant mesothelioma or asbestosis, you may no longer be able to work. And because you no longer are able to work, you may no longer be able to afford private health insurance. Based on income and the disability you have developed as a result of asbestos Medicaid may be your current form of health … [Read more...]
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Asbestos-Related Disease Still Causes Hundreds of Thousands Years of Potential Life Lost
Asbestos-related disease still cuts short too many lives and deprives Americans of hundreds of thousands of productive years of potential living, according to startling new data from a leading US government watchdog agency. The new study from the National institute of Occupational Safety and Health published in the Journal of Industrial Medicine reports that over 427,000 life years were lost from 1999 to 2010 because of early deaths from mesothelioma and asbestosis. NIOSH researchers reported that life years lost to mesothelioma and asbestosis changed little between 1999 and 2010 despite … [Read more...]
Doctors Find Rare Connection between Asbestos Exposure and Blood-Forming Cancer
During the latter half of the 20th century, the general public started to become more aware of the fact that asbestos exposure can increase the risk of several potentially fatal diseases, a relationship that scientists had known about for a much longer period of time. Contact with the hazardous material is usually a consequence of occupational exposure, as well as handling products that were manufactured with asbestos. Once inside the body, asbestos fibers can wreak havoc. When most people think about asbestos-related diseases, diseases such as malignant pleural mesothelioma or other … [Read more...]