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University of New Mexico researchers are helping miners in New Mexico get treatment for different diseases as well as get compensation from their employers...

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The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and Miners Colfax Medical Center are stepping up efforts to fight mining-related respiratory diseas...

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