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

Silicosis, a deadly lung disease caused by prolonged exposure to fine silica dust present in sand, rocks, and clay, is widespread among sandstone miners in India. RAJASTHAN, India — At 10 ...

Heart and lung transplants in kids is very rare and generally they said they’d do one a year, if that, and only in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.” The procedure took almost 10 hours and Clay’s ...