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In Love and Support: Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting on January 4, 2020

Posted on January 2, 2020 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. Tomorrow, on Saturday, January 4, 2020, the asbestos and mesothelioma [...]

2020-01-02T10:56:43-08:00January 2nd, 2020|

In Loving Memory: Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting on December 28, 2019

Posted on December 27, 2019 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. In honor of the longstanding Mesothelioma Warrior Candle Lighting tradition, [...]

2020-11-17T09:26:34-08:00December 27th, 2019|

Dr. Raja Flores Held a Successful Educational Event on Asbestos Dangers, Treatment, and Prevention at the Mount Sinai Hospital

Posted on November 30, 2019 On November 18, Dr. Raja Flores, a professor and Chair of Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) held the “Asbestos: Still Legal and Lethal Today” event.  During the luncheon, Dr. Flores and I focused on how medical students and [...]

2019-12-02T17:42:29-08:00December 2nd, 2019|

Educational Lecture: “Asbestos: Still Legal and Lethal Today” Held at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City on November 18

FREE EVENT: Educational Lecture “Asbestos: Still Legal and Lethal Today” (Pizza will be served) DATE: November 18, 2019 TIME: 12:15 – 1:15 pm LOCATION: Alvin S. Teirstein Auditorium, Annenberg 13-01, Mount Sinai Hospital’s Icahn School of Medicine, 1468 Madison Avenue, NYC DETAILS: http://bit.ly/2Q07Tad  Posted on November 1, 2019 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is [...]

2019-11-08T11:35:58-08:00October 30th, 2019|

Colombian Asbestos Documentary, Inextinguible, to Screen at the International Films Infest Festival, New York City on October 17, 2019

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 [...]

2019-11-15T13:25:06-08:00October 15th, 2019|
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