The 2000 paper by Hodgson and Darnton, HSE statisticians, was welcomed by some but heavily criticised by many respected asbestos scientists. However, this work remains the information source of choice…

This more recent analysis by Hodgson and others modelled the expected burden of mesothelioma mortality in Great Britain based on male mesothelioma deaths from 1968 to 2001 as a function…

While the main cause of lung cancer at the present time is cigarette smoking it can also result from occupational exposure to asbestos. Weiss reviewed studies of lung cancer in…

One of the most important, recent, epidemiological papers is by Yarborough. His study not only shows that: “[A] review of 71 asbestos cohorts exposed to free asbestos fibers does not…