In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as BRCA testing) in the United States and Britain, Parthasarathy develops [...]
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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, And The Comparative Politics Of Health Care (Inside Technology)
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What Are The Most Common Personal Injury Compensation Claims From Accidents On Building Sites?
September 13th, 2010 Building sites are very risky places with danger of falling material and electrical defects, plus the risk of power tools and functioning on scaffolding, damaged lifts and failing trenches, people operating in closeness to each other along with the internal construction site traffic. Some of the most frequent building site accident compensation [...]
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Former Paper Building Could Come Down Next Spring
Dayton city officials said recently that a company has purchased the old Howard Paper Company building. Garrett Day, LLC of Lexington, Kentucky bought the asbestos-ridden building that has become a home for vagrants and drug activity. Demolition will begin next spring following asbestos abatement. The city will request a grant from the Clean Ohio Revitalization [...]
Alabama Sears Building Razing Begins In August
The former Sears building at the corner of Tennessee Street and Wood Avenue in Florence, Alabama is being razed in preparation for future development. Built in 1950, the building is in poor condition and loaded with asbestos and other toxic building materials. It has been empty and deteriorating for more than a decade, so much [...]
Former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Building Comes Down
Once the largest independently owned steel operation in the country, Youngstown Sheet & Tube closed its Brier Hill, Ohio operations in the late 1970s. Now the building that headquartered the industrial company is coming down piece by piece, starting with the sandstone slab bearing the company name. Workers tore out the asbestos materials from inside [...]
Demolition Will Cost Almost Twice As Much As Purchase Price For YWCA Building
The City of Des Moines, Iowa has offered to buy the old downtown YWCA building for just over $1 million, but the cost of demolishing the building with asbestos abatement could cost in excess of $1.85 million. Initial estimates were in the neighborhood of $700,000. City officials would like to own the centrally located property, [...]
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Furniture Store Building From 1930s Burns Down
The Maness Furniture at 306 E. Main in Kilgore, Texas recently went up in a blaze so hot it melted the steel beams, causing the building to collapse on itself. Fire departments responded from nearby Overton, Sabine and Crim’s Chapel to help the Kilgore fire department contain the blaze, and off-duty Kilgore firefighters were called [...]
Oklahoma Nonprofit Gets $700K In Grant Money For Building Project
The Community Development Support Association is trying to raise $2.9 million for Smart Start Early Childhood Development Center, a nonprofit learning center for Enid, Oklahoma’s underprivileged children. Two recent donations totaling $700K will go a long way toward meeting that goal. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a Brownfields Cleanup Grant of $200,000 to remove [...]
University Of Oregon Fire Causes $500k In Damages, Building Closed Indefinitely
Gerlinger Annex, the University of Oregon’s home to the School of Music and Dance, caught fire after a burner was left on in a break room on the third floor of the building, causing about $500,000 in damage. It is unknown who left the burner on or how long the building will be closed due [...]
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Asbestos Removal To Take A Year At Former Owens Corning Building
The City of Toledo, Ohio is in the process of a $44 million redevelopment plan, but the vacant former Fiberglas Tower was not intended to be part of the plan. City officials vetoed a proposal to loan the owners $10 million to renovate the skyscraper, but the subject was recently put back on the table [...]