The benefit payments miners sick with black lung disease receive are not keeping pace with the cost of living, a new analysis showed. Current monthly benefits for a miner and one dependent in 2024 ...

The increased drilling generates deadly silica dust and has caused severe forms of pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung disease, even among younger miners, some in their 30s and 40s.

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly known as "black lung disease," occurs when coal dust is inhaled. Over time, continued exposure to the coal dust causes scarring in the lungs, impairing ...

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% ...

A Biden administration rule lowered the amount of toxic dust workers in mines and quarries can be exposed to, but a lawsuit ...

In the subsequent chapter, entitled “Black lungs and white lungs”, the author describes how in the USA, with slave culture prevailing up to the 1860s and the Civil War, the observation of ethnic ...

Antique medical scientific illustration high-resolution:... Victorian anatomical drawing of human heart and lungs 19th Century Vintage engraving of a Victorian anatomical drawing of human heart and ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could become a radiologist's best friend, with researchers training the technology to accurately ...

In recognition of Black History Month, the American Lung Association looks at declaring racism as a public health crisis, lung health outcomes affected by racism, and lung health issues ...