Health Risk of Radon | US EPA
On this page: Exposure to Radon Causes Lung Cancer In Non-smokers and Smokers Alike The Facts... Lung cancer kills thousands...
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Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures
Read about presumptive conditions.“Airborne hazard” refers to any sort of contaminant or potentially toxic substance that we are exposed to...
River Forest residents say Union Pacific freight trains idle, releasing diesel fumes, for hours and even days at a time
RIVER FOREST, Ill. (WLS) -- Residents in west suburban River Forest say idling trains that sit for hours, and sometimes...
NIOSH offers miners free black lung screening at Mylan Park through Thursday
MORGANTOWN — Dozens of miners were at Mylan Park on Tuesday for National Mine Rescue Association’s mine rescue contest. On...
Improving health care for veterans with deployment-related lung diseases
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although research studies have demonstrated an association between military deployment in southwest Asia and lung diseases...
Removing race from lung test won’t have big disability impact| STAT
Veterans Affairs department officials said Monday they have launched a study to determine how removing race from widely used lung...
