Earlier this month, the House Appropriations Committee passed the FY2014 Defense Appropriations Bill, which included mesothelioma as a topic area in their Peer Reviewed Cancer…
Asbestos safety champion Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, (D-NJ), died Monday morning at the age of 89, according to The Bergen Record. He served in Congress…
By Laurie Kazan-Allen I am not one for graphs or bar charts but today I saw a diagram that really made sense. It plotted the…
At this year’s Meso Foundation Symposium, Senator Chuck Schumer, along with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congressman Peter T. King,…
by Laurie Kazan-Allen The American humorist Bill Bryson once remarked that Britain was the only country which recognized breathing as a leisure time activity. The…
Last week, Meso Foundation staff and supporters represented the mesothelioma community in the Rally for Medical Research. Nearly 200 organizations participated to raise awareness about…
Yesterday, the White House released the President’s budget proposal for Fiscal 2014, two months later than the usual release on the President’s Day holiday in…
On Monday, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation will join nearly 200 organizations in a unified voice to call on our lawmakers to make medical research…
Each year, in the first week of April Asbestos Awareness Week is observed. On March 13, the U.S. Senate passed Resolution 66, officially recognizing Asbestos…
We are very excited that the Fiscal Year 2013 Continuing Resolution, signed by President Obama on Tuesday includes funding for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Congressionally Directed…