Washington — Nearly 1 in 3 long-tenured underground coal miners in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia have black lung disease, the highest rate in nearly 50 years, recent NIOSH research shows. A manuscript published Aug. 4 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine states that 32.5% of coal miners in those states […]

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