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Several Minneapolis-St. Pail sites will receive brownfield funding for cleanup of asbestos and other hazardous substances. The Met Council approved almost $4 million for 9 brownfield redevelopment projects in the Twin Cities area to redevelop or reuse land that has been contaminated with asbestos or other hazardous materials. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Council

One in fifteen retired carpenters in Australia and the UK will perish from mesothelioma, predicts cancer expert Professor Julian Peto, Head of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology and Genetics Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Peto delivered his warning to a public audience at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

The Asbestos Research Group, based at Brisbane, Australia’s Wesley Hospital, has been formed with the goal of improving treatments and quality of life for people with asbestos-related diseases. The group also will examine the progression of asbestos diseases like mesothelioma. The effort was launched by Karen Banton, the widow of mesothelioma victim, Bernie

CytRx Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company that makes therapeutics based on molecular chaperone amplification technology, has agreed to purchase Innovive Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company with four clinical stage oncology drug candidates. The combined company will have a broad portfolio of clinical development programs in oncology, ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, stroke recovery and diabetic foot

A new clinical trial is underway for victims of mesothelioma. The Mesothelioma Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is actively recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma. According to Dr. Robert Taub, the study’s principal investigator, the Mesothelioma Center