Accurate pneumoconiosis staging is key to early intervention and treatment planning for pneumoconiosis patients. The staging process relies on assessing the profusion level of small opacities, which ...

In 1928, women were banned from underground work in Japan, but the colonizers appeared to encourage it in Taiwan, Tai writes.

Workers who handle coal through ports and rail say they want easier access to testing for black lung disease to align with coal miners. There is no cure for black lung disease. Gladstone-based ...

Miners without tuberculosis or pneumoconiosis served as a comparison group. CONCLUSIONS Tuberculosis can cause chronic impairment of lung function which increases incrementally with the number of ...

Over the last approximately 12 months, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has issued numerous decisions impacting ...