Sentences with phrase «in black lung»

Reading and listening to the recent NPR, Center for Public Integrity, and Charleston Gazette articles about the rise in black lung cases for coal miners saddens and angers me.

Not exact matches

Federal officials said black lung has caused roughly 78,000 deaths since the late 1960s and there has been a resurgence of it in recent years, especially in eastern Kentucky.

HINDMAN, Ky. (AP)-- A Kentucky jury has awarded two former coal miners who filed a civil lawsuit claiming defective dust masks led to their debilitating black - lung disease $ 67.5 million in damages.

Oliver added that the executive was «on the same side as black lung» and bashed his response to a 2007 mine accident in Utah that killed nine people.

Yanking health insurance from any retiree is bad enough, but these are people who spent their working lives in highly unsafe conditions; many now suffer from black lung and other coal - related ailments.

Every person my age remembers the pictures of black lungs displayed at admonitory lectures we attended in elementary and middle school.

Often compounded by allergic reaction to the black mold spores, these symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, and bleeding in the lungs and nose.

Cyclist commuters in London had more than twice as much black soot in their lungs than did walking commuters.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a «Black Box» warning about the use of sirolimus in lung transplant patients, at least when started at the time of transplantation.

One potentially quick fix being bandied about in India is the replacement of old cooking stoves that produce Earth - warming, lung - clogging black carbon (a.k.a.

When she headed back to the surface, the preserved oxygen re-expanded into the lungs and prevented the sea lion from blacking out in the shallows.

Kheradmand and her graduate student Ms. Ran You found that this form of carbon black caused double - stranded breaks in the cell's DNA, a state that is very difficult to repair, and activates T helper 17 cells, inducing chronic inflammation in the lungs.

The size of each void reveals how hard the black hole had to work to blow away the gas, in the same way that your lungs need to exert more force to inflate a larger and larger balloon.

Although blacks tend to smoke less than whites, they «get lung cancer more often and die more often than non-African Americans,» says William Hicks, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Columbus, who co-authored a recent report on lung cancer in African Americans for the American Lung Associatlung cancer more often and die more often than non-African Americans,» says William Hicks, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Columbus, who co-authored a recent report on lung cancer in African Americans for the American Lung Associatlung cancer in African Americans for the American Lung AssociatLung Association.

Nigellone semohiprepinon, an active healing ingredient in black cumin seed, is known for its immune - boosting properties and is also a bronchiodilator (it relaxes and expands lung airways).

The dreaded tar, for example, is formed when the burning of tobacco creates numerous particulates, which enter your body and stick to your lungs in a steadily growing, black, sticky mass.

In the United States, about 1 in 365 black children is born with the condition, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstitutIn the United States, about 1 in 365 black children is born with the condition, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutin 365 black children is born with the condition, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

He fights through the flames, the black smoke burning in his lungs.

The Story: Set in an ancient Asian animal world, a panda named Po (Black) that dreams of being a Kung Fu master is seemingly mistaken to be the chosen one sent to protect the village from the evil snow leopard Tai Lung (McShane).

Jess Bishop, a black lung victim, takes his last breaths while his sons — also coal miners — keep vigil in Logan County, W.Va., in 1976.

Amanda Seyfried and Theo James starring in supernatural thriller Black Lung (Coming Soon).

The fifth tale, In the Vale of the Black Diamond, Dorgo sets out to find a magical diamond in order to use it and spare a friends brother from Virulian lung diseasIn the Vale of the Black Diamond, Dorgo sets out to find a magical diamond in order to use it and spare a friends brother from Virulian lung diseasin order to use it and spare a friends brother from Virulian lung disease.

In some forms, people's lungs collapsed and liquefied, in others their bodies broke out in boils and black spotIn some forms, people's lungs collapsed and liquefied, in others their bodies broke out in boils and black spotin others their bodies broke out in boils and black spotin boils and black spots.

And so it was my first week in Medgar — a Dumpster fire in back of Hivey's Farm Supply; a grass fire on a clear hillside that got taken by the wind and nearly lost control; an old foam car seat that burned ugly black smoke and stung my lungs when the wind shifted.

Bailey, my black cocker spaniel, was diagnosed December 23, 2009 with anal sac adenocarcinoma spreading to the lungs and lymph nodes and we have seen a Chinese Medicine Oncologist in Michigan (though I am from Canada).

The massive Newfoundlands, with their heavy black or brown coats, large webbed feet, powerful hindquarters and well - developed lungs cope easily with long distance swimming, even in the coldest conditions.

In this chest radiograph we have placed black arrows at some of the white and round areas that are the spread of the tumor in the lungIn this chest radiograph we have placed black arrows at some of the white and round areas that are the spread of the tumor in the lungin the lungs.

A radiograph taken soon afterwards shows improvement as evidenced by the increase in the normal amount of black lungs visualized.

In this radiograph from a problem cat there is fluid throughout the thorax and you can not see normal black lungs.

«Profile (Heartbeat)» (2015) unites a lopsided ultramarine lozenge on the right with an equally awkward form in warm, tar - like black on the left: two halves of a lumpen heart - shape (that looks more like a pair of lungs).

Black carbon is not unimportant (google Asian brown cloud for more) being an important nasty for both climate and health reasons (cooking in a small house with all that crud is not good for the lungs) but Pieter is making a apples and organge pool ball comparison

Black lung benefits: In the content of the coal operation statement of income, this term refers to all payments, including taxes, made by the company attributable to Black Llung benefits: In the content of the coal operation statement of income, this term refers to all payments, including taxes, made by the company attributable to Black LungLung.

«I was raised in Pittsburgh, [Pennsylvania,] and I remember as a child seeing black lung victims struggling to get down the street.»

From black lung to collapsed mines to mountaintop removal (and oh yea, burning it, too), why would ANYONE want to continue with this death sentence when we have more than enough crap in this world to meet our energy needs?

Because Bo and Maria spoke about the contaminated water in their communities» wells, the streams running black with dead fish near their homes, the toxic air coming in and out of their lungs, and the grave health risks of living near mountaintop removal mining sites.

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

Epidemiologists have linked the new wave of black lung cases to breathing in more silica dust, likely the result of a long - term shift to mining thinner seams of coal.

To support miners and families when the coal company can't be identified or is no longer in business, in 1977 Congress set up the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which has so far shelled out $ 45 billion in compensation to miners and their families.

With all the coal companies going bankrupt in the last few years, there may well be a funding crisis on hand for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund.

The meeting is to discuss proposed changes to MSHA rules to lower acceptable levels of respirable dust in mines to reduce the risk of workers contracting potentially fatal Coal Workers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diseases.

And I've seen many a tombstone in 28 years from black lung.

Kentucky Coal Miners Awarded $ 67.5 in Case against 3M Two Kentucky coal miners have been awarded $ 67.5 million in a lawsuit alleging they suffered from black - lung disease.

We have built a nationally recognized reputation for success in cases involving coal mine accidents, black lung and other lung diseases and gas explosion injuries, in addition to all other personal injury and workers» compensation claims.