NIOSH investigators identified a new lung disease in workers at factories that made microwave popcorn, and helped assess what ...

Hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were laid off this week, including ...

The Associated Press is reporting thousands of employees within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department received layoff ...

Their lung tissue becomes scarred, making it hard to breath—symptoms similar to the “black lung” disease that coal miners often contract. Currently, there is no cure for silicosis. In other cases, the ...

For example, biomedical scientists and clinicians trained by NIH grants are addressing locally relevant issues such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung disease ...

From a thorough history going back decades to a mass meeting of experts, identifying occupational lung diseases can be ...

Cigarette smoking declines over the past several decades prevented an estimated 3.8 million lung cancer deaths, according to ...

Rates of silicosis in Black and White miners remained above ... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, PTB, asbestos-related diseases, and progressive systemic sclerosis excluding ...