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Raz, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco’s Division of Thoracic Surgery.“The options for “But even when a combination of treatments is used, the outcomes aren’t great.”While several drugs have been approved for treating This is in part because, with some 5,000 Americans diagnosed with the disease annually, This factor, combined with “...

advertisement Asbestos was a common building material from 1945 until 1975 and was used in wall and ceiling panels, insulation and lagging.

Even the use of drawing pins in asbestos cement walls could release deadly fibres into the air.

Current advice to councils from the Health and Safety Executive is to leave asbestos in public buildings alone where it exists in sealed conditions because it poses no health risk.

However, the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association (SSTA) want to see all asbestos removed to minimise health risks completely.

Two weeks ago England's largest teaching union stepped up long-running attempts to remove asbestos from schools because of fears of There have been a number of high profile court cases involving teachers who contracted asbestos-related cancer while at school.

In the north- east of England eight teachers are taking legal action after claiming they contracted cancer by putting up class work using drawing pins and then breathing in asbestos from school walls.

In another recent case, Margaret Worthington, 69, from the Midlands, plans to sue education department c...

Would it take too much imagination for our soon-to-be-elected leaders to target financial resources to close our massive and increasing poverty gap, where the most vulnerable die too young and where recent stats for Shettleston show male mortality in the mid-50s whereas for Bearsden this is an average of 88?

- Bernadette Pugh, 104 Ledi Drive, Bearsden.

Mistake over Norway G M Lindsay asserts (Letters, April 26) that Norway is building a nuclear power station.

That is wrong.

Other than some thermal plants using North Sea gas and, at times, imports from other Scandinavian countries, just about all electricity in Norway comes from hydro schemes.

The nuclear lobby is campaigning for two thorium-powered electricity plants to be built.

These would be the first nuclear reactors, other than for research.

There is also a small programme of renewables other than hydro.

Mr Lindsay's assertions on intermittency and grid instability are equally mistaken.

They were comprehensively debunked in the UK Energy Research Centre report on intermittency, published in April 2006.

- David Hansen, 9A Duke Street, Leith.

Progressive tax For many years I had the good fortune to work and teach with the late C S Page, who was recognised as one of Britain's outstanding experts on local government finance.

Stuart Page was firmly of the view that, notwithstanding the criticism directed to...