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Action may be needed to protect the public from health risks allegedly caused by talcum powder in certain cosmetic products, Canada’s health ministry announced.

Settlement funds provided by Volkswagen following the automaker’s “Clean Diesel” emissions scandal will help improve air quality and decrease NOx emissions throughout South Carolina by funding upgrades to school buses and other public transportation.

A California appellate panel ordered that claims alleging pancreatic cancer caused by diabetes drug manufacturers Merck & Co., Eli Lilly & Co., AstraZeneca’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and Novo Nordisk Inc., should move forward in state court.

All on board Lion Air Flight JT 610 are feared dead after the Indonesian airliner crashed shortly after takeoff Monday from Jakarta, the country’s capital city.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined defendants’ petition for certification in historic lead paint litigation, People v. Conagra Grocery Products Company, effectively exhausting defense appeals.

U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. appointed Motley Rice as co-lead counsel for a class of MetLife, Inc., shareholders.

Mesothelioma Awareness Day was declared by Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg during a City Council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

It is our duty to reflect upon and remember the stories of the heroes that day: the rescue workers who rushed to the scene, those who live with the tragic memory of the day on a daily basis, and the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and loved ones who never made it home.

A Portland family, including three minor children, who suffered severe injuries July 31 when their plane, Aeromexico Flight 2431, crashed while taking off during inclement weather near Durango, Mexico, has commenced litigation.

World-renowned thoracic surgeon and pleural mesothelioma specialist David J. Sugarbaker, M.D. died Wednesday, August 29.