Asbestos has been found in a children’s toy just months after more than 70 schools were shut in a separate incident over fears an arts and craft item contained asbestos.

Multiple schools have been shuttered this school year after the discovery of asbestos, and the School District of Philadelphia is warning parents that more school buildings could be closed as ...

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. said Tuesday it didn't find asbestos in the bottle of Johnson's Baby Powder that was previously tested by the US Food and Drug Administration and found to be ...

Asbestos exposure can cause serious illnesses many years after it occurs. Diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestos lung ...

Between 1999 and 2017, Ohio recorded 12,697 asbestos-related deaths. That number includes 2,353 mesothelioma deaths and 996 asbestosis deaths. In Sandusky County alone, 104 people died from ...

For decades, thousands of American workers were unknowingly exposed to asbestos on the job. Before safety regulations were widely enforced in the early 1980s, asbestos was a common material used in ...