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    [an error occurred while processing this directive] Pneumoconiosis common among occupational diseases in Vietnam Nov 22, 2005
    23 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam now has some 9,000 cases of pneumoconiosis due to dust containing silica, accounting for 80 percent of all occupational diseases in ...
    - Xinhua,

    Explaining the past to our future Nov 19, 2005
    ...the NHS. In those days, tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis were rife and weaker members of society were placed in workhouses. The group ...
    - ic Wales,

    China raises 5 million US dollars for coal miners with black lung Oct 31, 2005
    More than 200,000 coal miners plagued by pneumoconiosis, or black lung, will enjoy medical treatment as a total of 42 million yuan (5.4 million US dollars) has ...
    - People's Daily Online,

    'They told me I had to sign or lose my money' Nov 10, 2005
    A sufferer from chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis, his quality of life is so poor that he is exhausted by walking up the stairs at his Worksop home. ...
    - Times Online,

    Funds to help coal miners clean lungs Nov 1, 2005
    Xinhua news agency said 200,000 coal workers suffer pneumoconiosis, a lung disease caused by long-term inhalation of coal dust. ...
    - Shanghai Daily,

    Alliance Resource Partners, LP Reports Increased Third Quarter and ... Oct 26, 2005
    ...taxes 11,507 10,742 Accrued payroll and related expenses 14,661 11,730 Accrued interest 1,421 5,402 Workers' compensation and pneumoconiosis benefits 7,222 ...
    - Business Wire (press release),

    Junk medicine: killer kettles Nov 11, 2005
    The latter motivation — borne of sorry sagas such as mad cow disease, asbestosis and the miners’ affliction pneumoconiosis — is commendable. ...
    - Times Online,

    CONSOL Energy Announces Third Quarter Results Oct 27, 2005
    Debt 425,646 425,760 Deferred Credits and Other Liabilities: Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions 1,580,389 1,531,250 Pneumoconiosis Benefits 413,750 ...
    - PR Newswire (press release),

    Case against chemical sprays 03 Oct 2005
    ...suggested, that the case against pesticides will eventually be accepted as it has been, belatedly, for asbestosis and the miners' affliction pneumoconiosis . ...
    - Scotsman

    Gold miners return to Lesotho to die Sep 12, 2005
    On discharge he was found to be suffering from pneumoconiosis (the generic term for lung diseases caused by dust) and hearing loss. ...
    - Mines and Communities

    Union fights for free home care Sep 11, 2005
    Mr Jones was 72 and suffering from pneumoconiosis, emphysema, and severe bronchitis when, in 1999, he suffered a severe stroke which left him partly paralysed. ...
    - BBC News

    Miner's family say he was entitled to free care Sep 11, 2005
    ...in Ynysybwl, near Pontypridd. He was already suffering from pneumoconiosis, emphysema and severe bronchitis. He suffered a stroke ...
    - ic Wales

    Lamenting the loss of a proud industry Sep 13, 2005
    The bodies of those who had endured these conditions for a lifetime were contorted through arthritis and the ravages of pneumoconiosis. ...
    - ic Huddersfield.co.uk

    Alliance Resource Partners, LP Reports Second Quarter Net Income ...Jul 27, 2005
    ...taxes 12,617 10,742 Accrued payroll and related expenses 13,188 11,730 Accrued interest 5,402 5,402 Workers' compensation and pneumoconiosis benefits 7,023 ...
    - Business Wire

    Sailor's lung disease certified as occupationalJul 24, 2005
    Kyodo) A former sailor's asbestos-linked lung disease has been certified as occupational, the first case among those not covered by the Pneumoconiosis Law, his ...
    - The Japan Times

    OAP wins asbestos claimJul 29, 2005
    She was by the Job Centre she could not claim compensation from the Government under the Pneumoconiosis Etc Workers' Compensation Act 1979 as her husband had ...
    - Norwich Evening News

    Japan's asbestos time bombJul 27, 2005
    The material has been blamed for thousands of deaths, and has condemned its victims to years of suffering from lung cancer, pneumoconiosis and mesothelioma, a ...
    - Mail & Guardian Online

    Ministry: Asbestos toll now at 374Jul 15, 2005
    The reported totals include cases of pneumoconiosis-a dust-related lung disease. ... Lung cancer claimed 106 lives, while 154 died from pneumoconiosis. ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    Stakeholders Discuss Means to Eliminate SilicosisJul 25, 2005
    ...an estimated 2 million former mineworkers who were exposed to Silica dust in Southern Africa, 480 000 were found to have contracted the Pneumoconiosis - a lung ...
    - AllAfrica.com

    More asbestos-related deaths come to lightJul 9, 2005
    ...(23) and Tatsuta Kogyo Co. headquartered in Nara Prefecture (21). Of the 358 victims, those who died of pneumoconiosis made up the largest portion -- 157. ...
    - 毎日新�

    Asbestos death toll continues to climbJul 7, 2005
    Three other employees are undergoing treatment for asbestos-related cancers, while 12 others died of pneumoconiosis they may have suffered as a result of ...
    - Mainichi Daily News

    Occupational disease takes huge tolls on ChinaJul 16, 2005
    The number of patients suffering pneumoconiosis, a disease of the lungs caused by long exposure to mineral or metallic dust, has alone reached 580,000, of ...
    - People's Daily Online

    Treating occupational diseaseJul 15, 2005
    Since China established an occupational disease reporting system in the 1950s, the number of patients suffering pneumoconiosis, a disease of the lungs caused ...
    - China Daily

    Kubota asbestos leads to 78 deathsJun 30, 2005
    ...asbestos. The others died of pneumoconiosis or other asbestos-related illnesses. ... 1975. Four years later, three people died of pneumoconiosis. ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    Asbestos kills 374 at 89firms in JapanJul 15, 2005
    A total of 374 people died of mesothelioma—a cancer of the lining of the chest cavity, lungs or stomach—or pneumoconiosis, a disease known as black lung ...
    - Manila Times

    Asbestos linked to 80 shipbuilders' deathsJul 14, 2005
    ...died of pneumoconiosis-a chronic disease of the lungs. The victims, all women, had complained of hacking coughs after retiring, and ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    Govt heats up silicosis probeJul 22, 2005
    Out of an estimated two million former mine workers who were exposed to silica dust in Southern Africa, 480 000 were found to have contracted Pneumoconiosis. ...
    - Finance24

    Nichias links 141 dead to asbestosJul 5, 2005
    The Nichias employees who died of methothelioma -- a deadly asbestos-related cancer -- as well as pneumoconiosis were employed at five factories and other ...
    - The Japan Times

    195 people at 8 companies killed by asbestosJul 5, 2005
    But Nichias also said 55 employees died of pneumoconiosis, although a causal relationship with asbestos had not been established. ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    Asbestos May Have Killed Hitachi Zosen, Sumitomo Heavy WorkersJul 11, 2005
    Japan Asbestos Association said last week a total of 175 people at eighteen member companies died from cancer, a lung disease called pneumoconiosis, or other ...
    - Bloomberg

    EDITORIAL/ Asbestos illnesses: Moves are needed to control this ...Jul 3, 2005
    Since the first worker died of pneumoconiosis in 1979 and another from mesothelioma in 1986, a total of 78 people have succumbed to asbestos-related illnesses. ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    86 more deaths linked to asbestosJul 5, 2005
    It also noted that 55 others died of pneumoconiosis during the same period, but said a causal relationship with asbestos had not been established. ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    EDITORIAL / The asbestos scareJul 11, 2005
    ...product. When fine asbestos particles are inhaled they settle in the lungs, causing mesothelioma and pneumoconiosis. Mesothelioma ...
    - Asahi Shimbun

    Japanese firm says asbestos may have killed 141 workersJul 5, 2005
    Corp. said in a statement on Tuesday. The 55 others died of pneumoconiosis, a lung disease caused by inhalation of dust. There is ...
    - TODAYonline

    Hundreds of deaths spur ministry plan to ban all asbestos use by ...Jul 8, 2005
    ...and sewage water. They have died since 1982 due to mesothelioma, pneumoconiosis and other asbestos-linked diseases. The predecessor ...
    - The Japan Times

    UK:CHANGES TO THE SCHEDULE OF PRESCRIBED DISEASES - ASBESTOS ...Jul 15, 2005
    ...advisers. * The prescription and occupational coverage for Prescribed Diseases D1, Pneumoconiosis and D3 Mesothelioma, remain unchanged. ...
    - noticias.info




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