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.

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 ...

David Mannino, MD, a pulmonologist in Lexington, KY, and the medical director and co-founder of the COPD Foundation, agrees that too many people with lung disease remain in the dark after diagnosis.

The HEART5 Mobile Health Unit — a B-double truck packed with equipment to test mine dust lung diseases like silicosis, black ...

Carbon County has a long history in coal mining. For hundreds of years, the region, which is known as the Coal Region, has been a large source of anthracite coal to heat homes, power operations and ...

Staff reportThe Chronicle-News The University of New Mexico is increasing healthcare access for miners battling black lung disease by partnering with rural clinics like Miners’… Login to continue read ...