Every Martian year (which last 686.98 Earth days), the red planet experiences regional dust storms that coincide with summer ...

Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis: Bilateral symmetric hilar adenopathy is usually associated with diffuse nodular or reticulonodular disease in both lungs in silicosis and coal workers ...

From April 2011 to April 2021, a total of 432 male native Chinese with silicosis who visited the Pneumoconiosis Department of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital were included in the retrospective cohort ...

Think of the kind that makes you pause and take a moment or more to pronounce these words. With around 273,000 headwords — for example, if you look up the word “cat” in a dictionary, “cat” is the ...

"The incidence rate for silicosis claims in the adult population increased from 0.12 per 100,000 in 1991–1998 to 2.38 per 100,000 in 2015–2022," Dr. Hoy said.

The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal more than 500 Victorians workers have now been diagnosed with the incurable lung disease silicosis, and just recently there has been an “alarming” spike in cases.

Pollution in the air, especially in cities and industrial areas, is filled with tiny particles that can enter the lungs Smoking is a major cause, lung cancer can also occur in people who have ...

Monash researcher Dr Ryan Hoy said the figures confirmed the silicosis outbreak’s “alarming scale”, and were partially driven by a rise in dangerous work environments. “It reflects an ...

Introduction Previous studies suggest respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is an important driver of resurgent pneumoconiosis ...