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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a major tobacco company's challenge to a federal law that would mandate graphic images on cigarette packs.
Some of the proposed images include a woman with a large lump on her neck alongside the message "WARNING: Smoki...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 25, 2024
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David Lynch, who transformed television and film with series such as "Twin Peaks" and movies like "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," announced Monday that he is battling the lung disease emphysema.
Lynch, 78 and a former long-time smoker, first spoke about his illness in an article for Sight and Sound, a magazine from the British Film Institute. Although emphysema is limiting ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- August 6, 2024
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Air pollution harms the health of everyone exposed to it, but a new study says communities of color are disproportionately harmed by dirty air.
Smog causes nearly 8 times higher childhood asthma rates and 1.3 times higher risk of premature death among minority communities compared to white communities, researchers found.
These elevated risks are a matter of geography, said study co-...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 6, 2024
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Folks who smoke weed along with cigarettes are doing serious damage to their lungs, a new study warns.
People who do both are 12 times more likely to develop emphysema than nonsmokers, due to the damage they're doing to the lung's air sacs, researchers report.
"There is a common public misconception that marijuana smoking is not harmful,"said researcher
While marijuana legalization in some U.S. states and Canada may send a message that weed is harmless, that's not necessarily so, according to a new study that found lung damage was more common in marijuana smokers than tobacco users.
Research into marijuana's impact on the lungs is just getting started, because weed wasn't legal in many places until recently, but early indications are tha...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- November 15, 2022
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The most common test of lung function, spirometry, probably is not detecting signs of emphysema in some people with the lung ailment, a new study says.
In particular, Black men are at greater risk of suffering from undiagnosed emphysema, since the way spirometry results are interpreted ap...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 20, 2022
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Emphysema is missed more often in Black Americans than in white Americans, and now researchers report they have figured out why.
The investigators found that many Black men who were considered to have normal results after race-specific interpretations of a common lung function test called spirometry actually had emphysema when assessed using computed tomography (CT).
Emphysema invol...
- By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter
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- May 16, 2022
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Workplace exposure to pesticides may boost a person's risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study finds.
COPD is a group of lung diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the two main types of
- Robert Preidt
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- January 31, 2022
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Most prescriptions for the medication gabapentin are for unapproved uses -- and many patients end up taking it along with drugs that create potentially dangerous interactions.
That's the conclusion of a new study that looked at "off-label" use of gabapentin. In the United States, the drug is officially approved for treating certain seizures and some forms of nerve pain.
It's known, ...
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
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- November 22, 2021
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