Black lung disease (BLD), also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term...

Black lung may refer to: Black lung, or black lung disease, the common name for coalworker's pneumoconiosis, a disease caused by long-term exposure to...

Occupational lung diseases comprise a broad group of diseases, including occupational asthma, industrial bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

Interstitial lung disease (ILD), or diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), is a group of respiratory diseases affecting the interstitium (the tissue)...

miner's lung, black lung or anthracosis) – coal, carbon Aluminosis – Aluminium Asbestosis – asbestos Silicosis (also known as "grinder's disease" or Potter's...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation...

and lung cancer. Causes include environmental pollution, certain medications, connective tissue diseases, infections, and interstitial lung diseases. However...

medical benefits to coal miners totally disabled from pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) arising from employment in or around the nation's coal mines. The...

Lung infarction or pulmonary infarction occurs when an artery to the lung becomes blocked and part of the lung dies. It is most often caused by a pulmonary...

conclusions were ignored at the time. Coalworker's pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, is caused by inhaling coal dust, typically dust produced in coal...

Chronic lung diseases, such as pneumoconiosis (black lung) were once common in miners, leading to reduced life expectancy. In some mining countries black lung...

responsible for human disease as they are able to penetrate deeply into the lungs. When such fibers reach the alveoli (air sacs) in the lung, where oxygen is...

keeps coal dust levels down, and also prevents the incidence of black lung disease. Rock dust has been used since the early 1900s, but there have been...

vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), is an umbrella term, used to describe lung diseases associated...

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in...

Virginia. His father Frank, who worked as a coal miner, had died from black lung disease six months before Bowles was born, and his mother Frances remarried...

of the lungs can be affected by a number of respiratory diseases, including pneumonia and lung cancer. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease includes...

characters developing a relationship before Scully's character dies of black lung disease at the end. On the Billboard charts dated for August 12, 2023, "In...

ISSN 1468-0297. S2CID 7406965. "Black Lung Disease-Topic Overview". WebMD. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. "Black Lung". umwa.org. Archived from...

health of workers. Provide better ventilation systems to decrease black lung disease, and better drainage systems. Enforce safety laws and make it illegal...

gained positive changes for the miners, including compensation for black lung disease. He had difficulty dealing with growing internal union opposition...

obstruction of the air passages by pus arising from lung infections caused by the smog. The lung infections were mainly bronchopneumonia or acute purulent...

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38–44. doi:10.1021/ie50641a006. Creosote. US: Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry, Division of Toxicology, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public...

Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre. It has the highest carbon content...

fibrosis of the lung parenchyma. Sarcoidosis of the lung is primarily an interstitial lung disease in which the inflammatory process involves the alveoli...

the absence of significant lung disease. A secondary spontaneous pneumothorax occurs in the presence of existing lung disease. Smoking increases the risk...

disability due to "black lung disease" from these coal miners back to the coal companies. Coalworker's pneumoconiosis or "black lung disease" can be a common...

Monitoring known associations between job hazards and illnesses (e.g., Black Lung Disease, once thought to be on the decline within the coal industry, reemerged...