by Russell Worth | Mar 3, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, News
A new drug which could help in the fight against mesothelioma has been given “orphan drug status” by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new stem-cell targeting cancer drug, called “VS-5584”, looks to target the cancer at its source by...
by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Accident at Work, News
A builder from Plymouth has been fined £10,000 after a worker fell almost six metres through a fragile roof light. 24-year-old Przemyslaw Borkiewicz, also from Plymouth, was working at a garage in Saltash when the incident occurred in December 2012. Plymouth...
by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Industrial Disease, News
A Liverpool NHS Trust has been fined £10,000 after it was discovered its workers might have been exposed to potentially-deadly asbestos fibres. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust after the...
by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Industrial Disease, News
Scientists have reported a major breakthrough which could significantly help in the development of drugs and other allergies. The study, led by scientists at Imperial College London for the last ten years, adopted new ways to analyse genes in the immune system and in...
by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Industrial Disease, News
A 75-year-old man from Hailsham died from an asbestos-related illness, an inquest has heard. On 10th January, James Spencer was taken in to a hospice, but he died a week later as a result of his illness. Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court heard that Mr Spencer worked as a...
by Russell Worth | Feb 27, 2015 | Accident at Work, News
A firm in Aberdeenshire has been prosecuted for serious safety failings following the death of a man who feel over five metres through a fragile roof. 57-year-old Nikolajs Naumovs, a Latvian national who had only arrived in Scotland two weeks prior to the incident in...
