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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – A guideline for U.S. doctors to ignore race in assessing lung health will likely have profound effects beyond the intended improvements in medical care, such as increasing disability payments and disease diagnoses for Black patients while boosting their job disqualifications, a study found on Sunday. Asian and Black patients will […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Federal Black Lung Program will host four outreach events in Pennsylvania from April 8-11 for current and former coal miners suffering disabilities related to black lung disease, and their families to assist them in filing or refiling claims for benefits. Administered by the department’s Division of […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Federal Black Lung Program will host three outreach events in West Virginia on March 19-21, 2024, for current and former coal miners disabled by black lung disease, and their families, to file or refile claims for benefits. There are currently 4,200 people receiving program benefits in West Virginia. The three-day […]
Pulmonologists have an important message for Black people: get screened for lung cancer. The Emmy award-winning actor Andre Braugher died last week at age 61 from lung cancer, just months after being diagnosed, his representative said. Braugher . . .
Two pieces of legislation reintroduced to the U.S. Senate would make it easier for coal miners with black lung disease and their survivors to receive benefits. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is the sponsor of the Black Lung Benefits Improvements Act, and a co-sponsor of
November 21, 2023 Legislation would ensure every coal miner who suffers from black lung disease receives the benefits they are entitled to Charleston, WV – Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-3) reintroduced the […]
Topline The national survival rate for lung cancer has risen 5 percentage points in the last five years, but people of color are still at a higher risk than their white counterparts of dying from the third most common cancer in the United States, according to the American Lung Association’s latest State of Lung Cancer […]
Voluntary medical surveillance data from 2002-2023 led them to conclude that not every recipient of healthcare services for this specific condition fares equally. “In a recent surveillance study of active Indigenous coal miners, 3% had coal worker’s pneumoconiosis/black lung and 9% had respiratory impairment,” the article reads. “Coal miners who are totally disabled from black […]
CNN — Nearly 5 million additional people are recommended to get screened for lung cancer under an updated guideline from the American Cancer Society, which expanded its recommendations to include older adults who smoke or formerly smoked — no matter how long ago they quit smoking. Previously . . .
Mindful Media/E+/Getty Images Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, can be detected using a low-dose computed tomography or CT scan. CNN — Nearly 5 million additional people are recommended to get screened for lung cancer under an updated guideline from the American Cancer Society, which expanded its recommendations to […]