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Coal. Black lung disease ( BLD ), also known as coal-mine dust lung disease, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term inhalation and deposition of coal dust in the lungs and the consequent lung tissue's reaction to its presence. [1] It is common in coal miners and others who work with coal.
Reported by the joint conference committee on April 19, 1972; agreed to by the Senate on May 4,1972 (Agreed) and by the House on May 10, 1972 ( 275-122) Signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on May 19, 1972. The Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA) is a U.S. federal law which provides monthly payments and medical benefits to coal miners ...
Physician, author. Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became known for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities ...
Five years after my chest pain first began, that was the case for me. In 2021, after my second hospitalization and sixth lung collapse, I was diagnosed with thoracic endometriosis, a type of ...
This article was first published in 2016 and is from the Miami Herald Archives. As a newly licensed physician in the mid-1960s, Dr. James W. Bridges began to practice medicine in Miami just as ...
A former nurse who killed at least three patients and tried to kill more than a dozen more at nursing facilities across Pennsylvania has been sentenced to life in prison, the state’s attorney ...
Wayne Memorial Hospital is a 114-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States. History and notable features. This hospital's patients include residents of Wayne, Pike, and Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania as well as Sullivan County, New York. Wayne Memorial first opened in 1920.
Whether at your primary care physician’s office for a routine physical or in the emergency room with a more pressing ailment, your health care concerns weren’t heard or, worse—were ignored.