A new study published in the Nature Scientific Reports showed that the investigation of novel therapeutic targets may result ...

Tens of thousands of silicosis lawsuits across the nation have been filed by a small group of doctors and lawyers. Defendants say these cases lack medical merit and are being manufactured for money.

In response to the rapid rise in silicosis cases associated with the fabrication and installation of artificial stone ...

A man who developed silicosis after working with engineered stone products has called for the products to be banned to prevent more people developing the disease. New figures show a surge in the ...

Across the United States, workers are suffering from, and sometimes dying of, the severe lung disease known as silicosis because they are fabricating and cutting “engineered stone” countertops for our ...

Tradies left permanently incapacitated with silicosis have slammed the federal Government for taking so long to ban engineered stone products. The Albanese Labor government will finally hold 'initial ...

A health crisis has broken out with young Latino manual labourers developing a severe and incurable lung disease from their work. Latino immigrants work on heavy slabs of engineered stone, producing ...

The annual cost of silicosis-­related payments to workers in Victoria will soar to $30m by 2031, with the greatest share ...

In the spring of 2001, an Alabama radiologist named George Martindale heard about a simple way to pick up extra income, one X-ray at a time. The work was not hard, and it wasn't quite like regular ...

When Roger Redditt died of lung cancer in 2002, there seemed no great mystery as to why. Though only 50, he had smoked all of his adult life — two packs a day for most of it, cutting down to a single ...

DOUBLE DIAGNOSES: In November 2004, Segarra diagnosed one patient, John Netter, with silicosis. Six months later, in May 2005, he diagnosed Netter with asbestosis. Segarra's later report noted that ...