An eastern Kentucky radiology practice identified 60 cases of a severe form of black lung disease among current and former coal miners over a 20-month period beginning last year, according to a new article in a Centers for Disease Control publication.
The cases weren’t discovered through a Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program run by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, highlighting the need for further measures to combat coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease, according to the authors of the report. The findings were publish...
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