Posted on October 21, 2019 October 7h – Part One: Prevent Asbestos Exposure October 14th – Part Two: Recognize High Risk Occupations October 21st – Part Three: Understand the Warning Symptoms for Asbestos-Caused Diseases October 28th – Part Four: Finding a Center of Excellence for Treatment Important Notice: ADAO does not make medical diagnoses, recommend [...]
Posted on October 28, 2019 October 7th – Part One: Prevent Asbestos Exposure October 14th –Part Two: Recognize High Risk Occupations October 21st –Part Three: Understand the Warning Symptoms for Asbestos-Caused Diseases October 28th –Part Four: Finding a Center of Excellence for Treatment Important Notice: ADAO does not make medical diagnoses, recommend treatment, or answer specific patient questions. Specific [...]
Posted on October 15, 2019 ADAO is celebrating the selection of documentary film Inextinguible (“Inextinguishable”) for New York City’s 2019 Films Infest Festival. Telling the story of Mesothelioma Warrior, Ana Cecilia Niño, whose asbestos exposure helped spur the #ColombiaSinAsbesto movement, the film is a powerful, moving piece of art-as-activism. The film’s screening comes on the [...]
ADAO Press Release: DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN FORMER EPA ADMINISTRATORS JOIN FORCES TO CALL FOR PASSAGE OF ASBESTOS LEGISLATION Posted on October 15, 2019 “The following op-ed, Asbestos Kills Nearly 40,000 Americans a Year. Ban It., by former EPA Administrators Gina McCarthy and William K. Reilly was published today in The New York Times. ADAO is [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2019 DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN FORMER EPA ADMINISTRATORS JOIN FORCES TO CALL FOR PASSAGE OF ASBESTOS LEGISLATION William Reilly and Gina McCarthy come together to support the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrators Gina McCarthy and William K. Reilly wrote an [...]
Posted on October 14, 2019 October 7th – Part One: Prevent Asbestos Exposure October 14th – Part Two: Recognize High Risk Occupations October 21st – Part Three: Understand the Warning Symptoms for Asbestos-Caused Diseases October 28th – Part Four: Finding a Center of Excellence for Treatment Important Notice: ADAO does not make medical diagnoses, recommend [...]
Posted on October 7, 2019 October 7th – Part One: Prevent Asbestos Exposure October 14th – Part Two: Recognize High Risk Occupations October 21st – Part Three: Understand the Warning Symptoms for Asbestos-Caused Diseases October 28th – Part Four: Finding a Center of Excellence for Treatment October is Health Literacy Month and at the Asbestos [...]
2018-2019 Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting List Submit a name for the 2019 -2020 Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting List. Please note, any Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting name submitted after December 15, 2019 will be added to the list for our 2020 Global Asbestos Awareness Week Candle Lighting Tradition on April 7, 2020. Posted on October 4, [...]
Posted on October 1, 2019 As Mesothelioma Awareness Day and month comes to a close, ADAO is looking forward to sharing information on asbestos disease and prevention for October’s Health Literacy Month. The theme for Health Literacy Month 2019 is “Be a Health Literacy Hero.” During the entire month of October, the ADAO four-part blog [...]
Posted on October 1, 2019 ADAO is pleased to share that the bicameral Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2019 (ARBAN) (H.R. 1603) has made another important legislative step forward within the House of Representatives. On Thursday, September 26, commemorated yearly as Mesothelioma Awareness Day, the bill was marked up by the Subcommittee on [...]