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‘Concerning’: Study finds 90% of welders exposed to carcinogens

‘Concerning’: Study finds 90% of welders exposed to carcinogens

Experts fear the fumes could become the new asbestos or silica after research uncovered the issue’s true scale, with GPs urged to help educate their patients.


Occupational Silicosis: Identifying Risks and Providing Support as a GP

Occupational Silicosis: Identifying Risks and Providing Support as a GP

Professor Lin Fritschi, an epidemiologist with expertise in occupational causes of cancer, discusses the increasingly topical area of silicosis.


Grant program opens to develop silicosis training

Grant program opens to develop silicosis training

Proposals are being sought for the training of healthcare professionals to help the diagnosis and treatment of dust diseases.


‘Asbestos of the 2020s’: Calls to fast-track silica ban

‘Asbestos of the 2020s’: Calls to fast-track silica ban

Until action is taken, Dr Kerry Hancock says GPs can expect to see more patients at risk of silicosis.


‘Great concern’ for predicted silicosis rates

‘Great concern’ for predicted silicosis rates

New modelling projects around 10,000 Australians will develop lung cancer directly related to silica dust. What can be done to reduce these numbers?


Government to take action on dust disease

Government to take action on dust disease

The Federal Government is taking action to accept all recommendations from the interim advice of the National Dust Disease Taskforce.


Silicosis: Australia’s ‘emerging occupational health epidemic’

Silicosis: Australia’s ‘emerging occupational health epidemic’

With barriers to early detection, the RACGP has developed a learning activity to better support GPs in diagnosis and management of silicosis.


Explainer: What is silicosis?

Explainer: What is silicosis?

And why is this old lung disease making a comeback?


Millions in funding for national action plan for lung conditions

Millions in funding for national action plan for lung conditions

The funding came on the same day a Queensland audit identified nearly 100 stonemasons with the potentially fatal lung disease silicosis.


Ban dry processing to halt spread of accelerated silicosis, expert warns

Ban dry processing to halt spread of accelerated silicosis, expert warns

Unless regulated urgently, Australia’s stone cutting industry is heading towards an epidemic of silicosis, a lung disease caused by inhalation of dust containing free crystalline silica.


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