Asbestosis Disease

Asbestosis figures from British Columbia by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Wed 28 Oct 2009 11:02pm occupational diseases. Posted in Chemical agents, lung, Mesothelioma Tagged: Asbestos, Asbestosis, Reporting ... To get insight in the true burden of asbestosis in the population it’s not enough to rely on a single source. Triangulation of workers’ compensation, hospitalisation Read on »

No decrease expected in asbestosis mortality soon by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm Asbestosis mortality in the USA: facts and predictions V C dos Santos Antao, G A Pinheiro and J T Wassell, Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2009; 66:335-338 Mortality trends in the USA show that deaths from asbestosis are increasing, while deaths related to other pneumoconiosis are declining. To analyse the association between asbestos Read on »

No decrease expected in asbestosis mortality soon by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Mon 18 May 2009 11:41pm Asbestosis mortality in the USA: facts and predictions V C dos Santos Antao, G A Pinheiro and J T Wassell, Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2009; 66:335-338 Mortality trends in the USA show that deaths from asbestosis are increasing, while deaths related to other pneumoconiosis are declining. To analyse the association between asbestos Read on »

Asbestosis mortality in the USA: ... by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm Asbestosis mortality in the USA: facts and predictions V C dos Santos Antao, G A Pinheiro and J T Wassell, Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2009; 66:335-338 Mortality trends in the USA show that deaths from asbestosis are increasing, while deaths related to other pneumoconiosis are declining. To analyse the association between asbestos Read on »

Asbestosis figures from British Columbia by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm To get insight in the true burden of asbestosis in the population it’s not enough to rely on a single source. Triangulation of workers’ compensation, hospitalisation and outpatient databases records is necessary to get a better picture. Population-based asbestosis surveillance in British Columbia W Q Gan, P A Demers, C B McLeod M Koehoorn Read on »

Asbestos Diseases by Jan Posted Tue 16 Nov 2010 6:10am disease. Asbestosis is the name given to the benign disease condition of scarring and fibrosis that occurs when embedded asbestos fibers irritate the lung tissue over a long... Exposure to asbestos can cause a variety of diseases, both malignant and benign. Malignant diseases are those that involve neoplasms, or cancer growths, that can metastasize Read on »

Cancer in Interstitial Lung Disease by Jan Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:56pm By Tatjana Peroš-Golubičić and Om P. Sharma Abstract Cancer may complicate the course of any interstitial lung disease, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), Langerhans cell granulomatosis, asbestosis, and tuberculosis. Nevertheless, how the previous injury in interstitial lung Read on »

New Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service Standards Launched Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatme by Dave W Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 01 Jul 2009 6:47pm The first Service Standards for the care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was launched yesterday at The House of Lords. This was marked by Lord Newton of Braintree as “a major development for people with Colitis and Crohn’s disease”. The simple truth is that patients in the UK, unless they are willing to pay for the latest drugs Read on »

Is Alzheimer’s Disease a Myth? When is Disease a Disease? by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Sun 26 Apr 2009 12:33am

1 Comment I received this abstract from Mark Smith. Mark is Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and a Professor of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University. This is thought provoking. I am going to take a look at the book and write more on this issue down the road. In a recent book [1], Dr. Peter Whitehouse describes Alzheimer’s disease Read on »

Carrier State IS Disease State. Pre-Disease IS Disease. by Dr. Steve Murphy Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:18pm . Did you seethe issue? It is a freakin' Gene Fest I tell ya. Too often we tell people you need 2 bad copies of Gene X to be affected by disease Y. But what if Gene X also caused Disease Z? Do the same rules apply? No wait a second, I thought Gene X only caused Disease Y? Well, we now know that many genes are invloved in diseases other than the traditional Read on »

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