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By Curtis Tage West Virginia Public Broadcasting Apr 7, 2021 3 hrs ago Long exposure to coal dust can often bring on back lung disease, a life-altering and incurable affliction. In the past 10 years, more than 10,000 miners have died from the illness. TWV FILE PHOTO CHARLESTON — Doctors hired by coal companies in black lung cases are far less likely to diagnose the disease in X-rays than are independent doctors or those who are hired by coal miners, a new study has concluded, pointing to conflicts of interest in the system that sick miners use to receive assistance. The doctors who worked for coal companies to read the chest X-rays of miners found an absence of the disease nearly 85% of the time, according to the authors of the study, published Friday by the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health’s Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. In contrast, the doctors whose clients were coal m

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