Many Smokers Who Want to Quit Just End Up Vaping, Too
Latest Lungs News By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) Many smokers eager to quit embrace electronic cigarettes as a tool for kicking the habit, but a new study warns the move may raise the risk for becoming addicted to both cigarettes and vaping. The finding follows a look at the […]
Social Media Has Big Impact on People Taking Up Smoking, Vaping
Latest Lungs News WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) The potent influence of social media may include tobacco use. By analyzing 29 previously published studies, researchers found that people who viewed social media that contained tobacco content were more than twice as likely to report using tobacco and were more likely to use it in […]
FDA Bans Juul E-Cigarettes From US Market
Latest Lungs News By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered Juul Labs to pull its e-cigarettes off the American market. “Today’s action is further progress on the FDA’s commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being […]
Legionnaires’ Disease: Outbreak, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a lung condition in which trauma to the lungs leads to inflammation of the lungs, accumulation of fluid in the alveolar air sacs, low blood oxygen, and respiratory distress. ARDS can be life-threatening. Signs and symptoms of are shortness of breath and low levels of oxygen in the blood, […]
Annual Health Care Costs Rise by $2,000 for Americans Who Vape
Latest Lungs News TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Think vaping is cheap? A study from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing reports that annual health care costs for users of electronic cigarettes were $2,024 more per person than for those who use no tobacco products. That adds up to about $15 […]
Targeting molecular pathway that causes pulmonary arterial hypertension
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a type of high blood pressure in the lungs, in which blood vessels are narrowed, blocked or destroyed, causing the heart to work harder and, in time, result in cardiac weakness and failure. The disease is relatively rare, but affects an estimated 100,000 persons in the United States, and results […]
Mold a Big Threat to People With COPD
Latest Lungs News By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) Exposure to mold both in and out of the home may worsen breathlessness and other symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), new research suggests. More than 16 million Americans have COPD, according to the American Lung Association. COPD […]
Vaping Not a Great Aid to Quitting Smoking: Study
Latest Lungs News TUESDAY, Feb. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) E-cigarettes have been touted as an aid to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes, but a new study suggests that’s a myth. Researchers found that using e-cigarettes resulted in fewer successful attempts than other smoking cessation aids. And, they added, e-cigarette users weren’t less likely to relapse than […]
Your Gas Stove Might Make You (and the Planet) Sick
Latest Lungs News By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) That gas stove in your kitchen fires up quickly and cooks evenly. What’s not to love? A lot, as it turns out. The emissions from gas stoves are considered major contributors to climate change and damaging to human health. Now, new […]
Where Does Tuberculosis Come From?
Tuberculosis (TB) is an illness caused by a bacteria will get into your lungs and cause an infection there, but it can also attack other areas of your body, including your kidneys, brain, and spine. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that comes from a bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that comes […]