Occupational lung disease - what the general physician needs to know
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Dr Patrick Howlett, Professor Joanna Szram and Dr Johanna Feary have co-authored an article in the Clinical Medicine journal about occupational lung disease for the general physician.
The five take home points are:
- A concise yet careful history can help determine whether there is an occupational cause for a patient's presentation
- Refer to a specialist occupational lung disease centre as soon as an occupational cause is suspected
- There has been a recent increase in the number of silicosis cases in the UK; vigilance is needed for cases
- Occupational lung diseases are largely preventable with appropriate monitoring and safeguards.
Read the full article on ScienceDirect.
You can also read more about our team's publications.
Health & Wellbeing At Work 2025 conference
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
Dr Jo Feary spoke at the Health & Wellbeing at Work conference on 11 March 2025 in Birmingham. They featured in the programme section "Hot topics in Occupational Lung Disease". Taken from the conference programme, "contemporary work-related risks to lung health in the UK will be summarised in a case-based presentation, taking into account challenges for occupational health professionals, employers and industry."
Read more about on the conference website.
Read more about education and training we provide.
Silicosis on Channel 4 News
Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Dr Johanna Feary, Honorary Consultant in Occupational Lung Disease and Asthma, and patient Marek Marzec were recently interviewed by Channel 4 News to discuss the dangers of silicosis due to artificial stone. The piece was aired on Monday 28th October 2024 and you can watch it online here.
If you have ever worked with silica, stone dust, artificial stone or quartz and you are worried about silicosis, please email us now.
We see patients with suspected silicosis in our Occupational Lung Disease NHS clinic.
