black lung
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“Basic black lung diagnoses had doubled in a decade. The advanced disease, PMF, had quadrupled since the 1980s.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"You can treat the symptoms... but there's no cure for black lung."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
He still struggles with black lung disease, she said, and joint pain from time spent crawling underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
As progress on the rule stalled, government researchers documented with growing alarm a resurgence of severe black lung afflicting younger coal miners, and studies implicated poorly controlled silica as the likely cause.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Mom got on the phone and said Dad’s black lung had worsened.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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