A study led by a community group found that even after cleanups were supposedly complete, many standing homes in Altadena ...

Residents compiled testing results for 50 remediated homes. One third still contained asbestos, and 63% contained elevated ...

But lead levels on the floors of 63% of tested homes were found to be far above EPA screening thresholds, a result Tissot ...

Exposure to airborne asbestos has been linked to an increased risk of several serious and debilitating diseases, including mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, and other types of cancer. Workers who ...

Validation studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery push availability of the DecisionDx-Mesothelioma molecular test through an early access program.

The Environmental Protection Agency will begin indoor tests for Libby asbestos in 30 to 50 homes in northeast Minneapolis on Wednesday. The selected homes are a sample of more than 260 Minneapolis ...

SOLON, Ohio (WJW) — A Solon City School District elementary school will be closed through Wednesday while asbestos testing is underway. Leaders with the district informed Roxbury Elementary School ...

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. said it was voluntarily recalling a single lot of its Johnson's Baby Powder in response to a federal test indicating the presence of "sub-trace" levels of asbestos, the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNEWS.COM) - Parents buying school supplies for grammar schoolers might want to avoid Playskool crayons. The brand, sold at Dollar Tree, was found to have trace elements of asbestos. "The ...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration examined asbestos testing for talc powders and cosmetics at a hearing on Tuesday, after traces of the known carcinogen were ...