Black lung disease is still killing miners. The coal industry doesn't want to hear it
by Elyssa East from on (#44X9A)
Today's black lung rates are higher than 50 years ago, affecting men as young as their 30s, and in Kentucky their right to decent healthcare is being curtailed
Dr James Brandon Crum was alarmed. For months, unemployed coalminers had been coming into his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky, seeking chest radiographs.
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