Weeks after President Donald Trump took office, multiple government webpages referencing gender and sexual orientation ...

Professionals in the beauty industry work to make us look our best. However, cosmetic chemicals have the potential to pose ...

It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage ...

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders the ban on asbestos, an Indiana man suffering from asbestosis ...

Male construction workers face a suicide rate 75% higher than that of the general population, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health specialists were put on leave, and a report on how to protect 20 million workers from wildfire smoke has stalled ...

A Sioux City resident is living with Parkinson Disease and Dystonia, which is a movement disorder. After her diagnosis about ten years ago, she has now turned to a CNOS Occupational Therapist.

In a single day, 10,000 federal workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were laid off, including 90% or more of those at the CDC’s National ...

Around 10% of underground tunnel workers in Queensland could develop silicosis, our new study has found. Silicosis is a serious, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling small particles of silica ...

Industry organisation the Minerals Council South Africa launched its Ex-Mineworkers Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Guide in multiple languages on March 24, coinciding with World TB Day. The ...

News Occupational lung diseases remain high among SA miners The incidence of active pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and silicosis among gold miners remains high, but recent years have seen a slow ...

Emphysema, active PTB, and silicosis were the most frequently occurring occupational diseases diagnosed at autopsy. The research revealed that the current active PTB rate was 137 cases per 1 000 ...