In total, the new analysis included 55 engineered stone countertop workers, all Hispanic males, whose silicosis showed up on lung CT scans and in tests of their lung (pulmonary) function.

Silicosis is a long-term lung disease caused by inhaling large amounts of crystalline silica dust, usually over many years.

The 48-year-old, who had lung disease silicosis, was too unwell to undergo a potentially lifesaving lung transplant. He had accused stone manufacturers where he worked for a decade of having ...

The engineered surfaces have already been linked to more than a dozen UK cases of a lethal lung disease called artificial stone silicosis. At least two people in the UK have died after working ...

He was being treated at the Whittington Hospital under the care of leading occupational lung disease expert Dr Jo Feary, from the Royal Brompton Hospital. However, his silicosis - a long-term lung ...

Silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline free silica dust. It is characterised by nodular pulmonary fibrosis.

There is persistent small left-sided pneumothorax/lung collapse (red arrow ... stone countertop workers diagnosed with silicosis using available CT and pulmonary function tests.

The miners contracted silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling dust from gold-bearing rocks. The dust lodges in the lungs, causing permanent scarring and can often lead to tuberculosis.