Hundreds of workers at the NIOSH facility in Morgantown learned a a little less than a month ago that they would lose their ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now what?" ...

NOGUCHI: Yesterday, Petsonk filed suit against Health and Human Services ... NOGUCHI: Laney says with no staff, the Coal Worker (ph) Health Surveillance Program and its database of X-rays, medical ...

A West Virginia coal miner is taking legal action against the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.