The book “Modern Occupational Diseases Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management and Prevention” is intended to serve as a useful guide for all those who are interested in occupational diseases. These ...

Hudson v. Beebe Medical Center, S23A-10-002 NEP, 2024 WL 36063 (Del. Super. Jan. 3, 2024). Ms. Hudson worked as a front-line nurse for the employer on its COVID-19 floor in the Fall of 2020. She ...

Black lung disease and silicosis have roots in the industrial revolution, and beryllium disease dates to before World War II, but these conditions have not been consigned to the dustbin of history. In ...

Occupational lung diseases occur when employees inhale dust, fibers, fog, smoke or chemicals irritating the lungs. The most common work-related lung illnesses include asbestosis, chemical pneumonitis, ...

The Pepper Center, one of UConn Health’s locations. The center is named after late senator Claude D. Pepper. Photo courtesy of UConn Health The annual occupational disease report for Connecticut was ...

In Herold v. University of Pittsburgh, 1 the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court affirmed a Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County decision, holding that: (1) common law claims for occupational ...

Colorado's second-highest court has ruled for the first time that COVID-19 is an "occupational disease" that entitled the widow of a deceased nursing home employee to workers' compensation benefits.

Occupational skin diseases represent a significant and often under‐recognised burden in workplace settings, affecting the health and productivity of millions of workers worldwide. Among these ...

A nurse tending tuberculous patients is entitled to workman’s compensation if she catches the disease, for TB is undeniably a hazard of her job. But what about a truck driver who contracts TB while ...

The average yearly number of preventable occupational lung disease deaths decreased 40.4 percent from 1999 to 2018, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published June 12. The ...