Researchers find increased risk of autoimmune disease in stone bench-top industry, call for better screening

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In what could be a preview of an even greater disease burden for those workers in the artificial stone benchtop industry, Monash researchers have conducted a large study finding that those workers exposed to silica dust show a higher incidence of blood markers that are the hallmark of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and...

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