California Quartz Workers Face Deadly Lung Disease Crisis

Hundreds of California quartz countertop fabrication workers have developed incurable silicosis, prompting urgent public health warnings and regulatory crackdowns as state data links engineered-stone exposure to dozens of deaths. According to the California Department of Public Health and an analysis published in NEJM Evidence, state tracking identified 592 cases of engineered-stone silicosis among workers between … Read more

Dexamethasone Calms Lung Inflammation Without Harming Immunity

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and St. James’s Hospital have demonstrated that dexamethasone, a commonly prescribed anti-inflammatory steroid, reduces harmful inflammation triggered by Mycobacterium avium without weakening the ability of human immune cells to control the infection, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Understanding Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease and Treatment Challenges … Read more