Asbestos victims widow seeks former colleagues 
THE widow of a man who died from asbestos cancer is urgently seeking his former colleagues to help her secure compensation for his death. William Marler, 68, died at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, in Woolwich, in July from mesothelioma, an asbestos-related illness.
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Jury awards $3m against R.T. Vanderbilt in first U.S. talc/asbestos cancer verdict 
RENO, NV (Mineweb.com) –A New Jersey jury Thursday awarded more than $3 million in compensatory damages related to a death of a potter in what is believed to be the first court award in the United States dealing with asbestos in industrial talc.
Source: www.mineweb.net

Yellow stuff made me chunder but saved me 
When Blair Wingfield arrived at Auckland Hospital in October 1981, covered in yellow bruises and cuts that wouldn’t heal and with his lips bleeding after eating French bread, the doctors who diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia gave him days to live. “They said I wouldn’t see 40.”
Source: www.nzherald.co.nz