{"id":40848,"date":"2018-03-31T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/40848\/"},"modified":"2018-03-31T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T16:01:11","slug":"kentucky-lawmakers-limit-black-lung-claims-reviews-despite-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/40848","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Lawmakers Limit Ebony Lung Reports Ratings Despite Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/31\/fike1-w-history_wide-accf84cd60bf053169782a87c457736abb8d5be4.jpg?s=600' alt='Severe black lung disease deeply scarred  the lung of a 61-year-old West Virginia coal miner, which was removed as part of a lung transplant.' \/><p>There is a modification of Kentucky legislation that leaves diagnoses associated with the life-threatening coal miners’ disease black colored lung mainly in the hands of physicians whom usually work for coal businesses. <\/p>\r\n<p>(Image credit: Courtesy of NIOSH)<\/p>\r\n<img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=598484688' \/><\/p>\r\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/31\/fike1-w-history_wide-accf84cd60bf053169782a87c457736abb8d5be4.jpg?s=600' alt='Severe black lung disease deeply scarred  the lung of a 61-year-old West Virginia coal miner, which was removed as part of a lung transplant.' \/><\/p>\n<p>There’s a change in Kentucky law that puts diagnoses of the deadly coal miners’ disease black lung mostly in the hands of physicians who typically work for coal companies. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Courtesy of NIOSH)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=598484688' \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}