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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 Dec 16 DOC NMA051 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - New International Code Aids Ray Study in Black Lung Disease Disease New International Code Aids Ray Study in Black Lung LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN Special to TheThe New York Times Historical The New York Times 1851 - 2002 By New York Times Currentfile Dec 16 1970 ProQuest HistoricalHistorical Newspapers Pg 36 NewIntwoerkrerns atapiploy nal Code Aianddexposures Xmicking rayRs ay pSleutrauwadsypubliisnhed Blinack madeLduersntagnd Di10s0 teeachiang se illuminat- the patient has the option haled by minerosr men work- ray abnormalities Dr. Lain- man Kodak Company of Roch- ester to make quality By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN ray of transferring has at no lossing lossing on barges for example hart said and decided classification that was on made copies of the teaching teaching films Special to The NewYork Times in salary - to a new job in a it can produce lungordawmhaigtee by the International Union thus facilitating the course in- DENVER Dec. - group less dusty area of the mine if that appears opaque chest Lung damage Against Cancer pneumoconio- struction of 118 practicing physicians the ray changes are more on sis is not a cancer The code The coded data that physi- two advanced the coal worker can often mimicking pneumoconio- in sians submit on coal workers have just completed a for Social Security dis ses can result from diseases last July a Chest and the rays will be sent course here that taught them ability produced for example by tox- medical journal called to the Appalachian Laboratories how to use a new international The aim of the law Dr. ic metals such as cadmium The classification is a short for Occupation Respiratory Dis- code to classify the abnormal william S. Lainhart of the Pub and berylium hand system for recording and of the various X- Center at Morgantown white spots that appear on lic Health Service said in an noting which area standardizing the from dust Va Epidemiologists there of coal workers interview is to arrest further lung is damaged radiologists ray changes resulting chest rays of the black lung can often distinguish between inhalation expect to use the data to un- diagnose and con- with black lung disease progression disease Dr. Lainhart is an the various pheumoconioses To teach the system the black lung and other dust Doctors said that the course epidemiologist with the Bureau Because these diseases can service and the two medical inhalationinhalation diseases designed to of Occupational Safety and produce similar changes as organizations began last June and the code were out provisions of a Fed- Health in Cincinnati seen on rays radiologists to give the course six cities carry eral law concerning the health Depending on the severity can have difficulty in making to than physicians caring for coal here coal workers a more precise diagnosis workers The physicians of the 100,000 coal in of the disease suffer from chest pain pneumoconioses are among the 900 doctors who 4,500 mines in 23 states The can cough shortness of breath Health Service the and easy fatigue on exercise Problem of Diagnosis are expected to have volun- Sometimes for example the teered for the course by the Public American College of Radiology Their skin can turn blue or lung covering called the time the last session is given and the American College of cyanotic Ultimately such lung becomes abnormally thickened next month in Pittsburgh Chest Physicians sponsored the dofamhaegaert cfaainlukriellcaflrleodm coar tpyuple- Ifnrosmucmhacnayseosf intfheosrematdiiosneases coEuarrsleieirn WpahsyshiicnigatnosntCohoakrletsh-e sessions doctors monale about the patient's occupation ton Knoxville and St. Louis What the doctors learned was Doctors have long known andexposure to dust and oth- Participating doctors sit at how to classify the extent of that inhalation of various dusts er environmental agents is a table facing a box damage that coal workers can such as coal quartz asbestos helpful in establishing the spe ing the chest rays of patients dis- get from inhaling coal dust so talc and gaphite can lead to a cific diagnosis with black lung or other ill victims can qualify for Fed- group of lung diseases that are Because of these technical eases that mimic it Course compensation Under the categorized as pneumoconioses difficulties the service studied directors use a new technique East- eral Federal Coal Mine Health and When black coal dust is in- ways to standardize such chest which was developed by Safety Act that President Nixon signed a year ago each coal worker can have a chest ray taken every two or three years at the expense of the mine op- erator If radiologists find evidence of sufficient black lung damage in the coal worker's chest X- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproductionreproduction prohibited without permission