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Asbestos pipe insulation is a very tricky and potentially even dangerous activity because being exposed to the toxic fibers of asbestos over a period of time can cause severe health damages.

Asbestos pipe insulation is very important because the absence of it might cause breathing problems and lots of other medical problems. Some of the medical problems would be heart failure, lung cancer, abdomen lining, etc. All those people who get lot of exposure to this deadly chemical have very hig...

If you enter the word aspestos into Google, you will get almost 50,000 results back. That’s some impressive number for a typo or misspelled word.

Of course, we are talking about asbestos, actually. Asbestos is a material that occurs naturally. It is of fibrous consistency and friable. Friable means that something can be broken up into smaller pieces with very limited efforts. Basically, if you can crush something with hand-pressure, it is friable.

Asbestos is known for being resistant to...

If I had to describe it in unsophisticated terms: Pleural plaques are causing pleural thickening. But let's back off for a minute, because it is important to understand that the level of exposure to asbestos has a strong influence on what kind of lung disease - and pleural plaques is a lung disease - a person may develop.

If the exposure stretched over a longer period of time and was of frequent and intense nature, we typically see patients developing a condition called asbestosis, which is ...

Nothing is more shocking and terrifying than hearing the words, "You have cancer." However, being educated about a cancer can help a person overcome the terror associated with it. About 3% of all cancers cases are kidney cancer cases. The kidneys clean and filter the blood through tubules, producing the waste product urine. The urine is then transported to the bladder and then out of the body. When certain cells in the epithelial lining of the kidneys start to grow abnormally and uncontrollab...

Usually, a lung cancer prognosis is rather poor. The reason being, most of the times, before a reliable diagnosis can be made, the cancer has already spread to other parts of the body and is therefore at an advanced stage.

Most often, the symptoms of lung cancer will be deceiving. They will resemble to the symptoms of other illness. It is not easy to diagnose lung cancer, till it is too late. About 25% who are diagnosed with lung cancer do not seem to show any lung cancer signs and symptoms. W...

The question as to whether or not old asbestos tiles should be removed from a house has been debated controversially since years. A group of experts recommends not taking them out, the other part strongly believes and argues to have them removed rather sooner than later.

Remarkably, both sides use the same reasoning to support their argument, saying that the risk of being exposed to asbestos can lead to very serious health conditions, such as asbestosis, mesothelioma and certain forms of lun...