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ONCONASE triggers apoptosis, the natural death of cells, via multiple molecular mechanisms of action.

About Alfacell Corporation Alfacell Corporation is the first company to advance a biopharmaceutical product candidate that works in a manner similar to RNA interference (RNAi) through late-stage clinical trials.

The product candidate, ONCONASE, is an RNase that overcomes the challenges of targeting RNA for therapeutic purposes while enabling the development of a new class of targeted therapies for cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

In addition to an ongoing Phase IIIb study in malignant For more information, visit www.alfacell.com.

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Sheila Wood, of Friars Lane, received £10,000 in compensation after her husband, Harold, died of She said: “It is awful that people in Scotland are receiving more compensation than those in England.

It seems unfair.

“No amount of money will bring back Harold but the law should be changed to make it fairer for everyone who loses a loved one to Part of his job at Vickers involved him delivering messages to foremen and managers on board the ships.

The role saw him walk through areas where asbestos was being used.

His employers never told Mr Wood that the dust was harmful.

He died just four and a half months after he was diagnosed with the lung disease.

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Beginning in 2001, as part of a federally funded study to determine if cancer clusters exist in a two-mile radius of the plants, the department mounted a fruitless search for former employees, who had the greatest exposure and run the highest risk.

Unable to acquire payroll records from the defunct owner, W.R.

Grace and Co., the department called the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration.

It contacted the Utah Tax Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and various business licensing agencies.

But it never called the news media, which would have publicized the warnings to former employees for free.

Now, six years later, after the study has concluded and news accounts were written, several former Advertisementemployees have learned of the danger and contacted the health department.

They are advised to see a physician, and are questioned about the whereabouts of their co-workers.

But with diseases for which early detection is crucial to survival, the department shouldn't have been dragging its feet.

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Wayne Ball, the lead epidemiologist at the department, said contacting the media during the study is not part of the "procedure." He said the study took six year...