The number of pneumoconiosis cases increased across the five sociodemographic index regions, and there was a decrease in the ASIR from 1990 to 2017. The ASIR of silicosis, coal workers’ pneumoconiosis ...

and clinical information from ES workers with silicosis from multiple countries. Notably, 32.5% of workers enrolled in the registry have PMF, the most severe form of mineral dust-related ...

Otherwise known as Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis (CWP), black lung disease is another ... they figured out that it was silicosis and that he had osteoporosis due to it as well." Shane says he is ...

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito announced that over 100 workers from Morgantown’s division of National Institute for ...

Johannesburg - Thirty-one former South African miners launched a case against AngloGold Ashanti [JSE:ANG] on Thursday in the Johannesburg High Court, saying they contracted the lung disease silicosis ...

A person who has severe silicosis has to fight for every breath. A short walk that should take just 20 minutes can take an hour. Climbing stairs, carrying groceries, and normal recreational ...

To paraphrase The Simpsons: plastics are the solution to – and cause of – all of mankind’s problems. Nowhere is this more clear in the phenomenon of microplastics. Some have suggested that ...

Control of respirable dust to eliminate silicosis is a life-and-death challenge that has faced the mining industry since its inception, with silicosis being responsible for disability and death on ...

An unexpected payment of £749 from the DWP is appearing in many benefits claimants' bank accounts today. Typically, Personal Independence Payments (PIP) are disbursed every four weeks and the exact ...

involving a 2024 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found the company liable for benefits to certain coal miners disabled by pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease.

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial ...