The peer-reviewed academic journal Labor History has published an article about the history of black lung in the UK from the period of 1918 to 1946. …
The Center for Public Integrity reports today that Johns Hopkins terminated its black lung program following criticism brought on by the Center for Public Integrity/ABC News…
Important news in the black lung benefits system: The federal government has created an interagency program to revoke the “B-Reader” certification of biased physicians. Background NIOSH’s…
Since the loss of Dr. Rasmussen a week and a half ago (see previous post here), multiple news outlets have ran pieces covering the contribution that…
Over on Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center’s main site, we have a eulogy up for the late Dr. Rasmussen. “Mourning the passing of Dr. Donald Rasmussen, hero…
I’m playing catch-up on a medical study that is very important to understanding the risks of black lung that surface miners face. In the January 2015…
The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has published abstracts from the American Thoracic Society’s International Conference in Denver, which begins tomorrow. Below are…
The American Journal of Industrial Medicine recently published a study reporting a case cluster of pneumoconiosis at a coal slag processing plant in the Midwest. The…
The brochure for the 2015 “Pipestem” conference from June 2 to 5, 2015 has been released (and is embedded and downloadable below). This year’s conference is…
Erica Peterson of WFPL has an interesting story up about a civil suit filed by a woman who says her anthracosis was caused by a coal…