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Can CBD Oil Help With Lung Disease?
CBD products abound, in all kinds of forms. Despite marketing claims, there’s no proof they’ll help lung disease. Learn the facts on CBD and where research stands.
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Mask Myths and Facts for People With Lung Disease
If you have a lung disease like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it’s important to take steps to protect yourself from COVID-19 and other viruses. But you might be wondering if wearing a face mask to lower your risk of illness will make it harder to breathe, or even make your lung disease worse.
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Lung Disease: Get Back into Exercise
Chronic lung disease can make you feel breathless and sap your muscle tone. You may be afraid to exercise or do the activities you once enjoyed. Exercise is not only safe with lung disease, it improves your breathing, strength, and self-esteem. Find out how to get back into exercise if your lung disease has sidelined you recently.
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Lung Disease Facts: What You Need to Know
Many people newly diagnosed with lung disease want answers now, rather than finding them out on their own later. Learn what to ask your doctor upfront, and how to gather other tools to manage lung disease.
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Could Wildfires Have Long-Term Health Effects?
When people breathe wildfire smoke, the short-term health effects can range from eye and nasal irritation and coughing to worsening asthma, heart attacks, and strokes. Scientists aren’t sure yet of the long-term effects, but there are some early clues.
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U.S. Air Quality Got Better During Pandemic: Study
Researchers said the NO2 decreases were likely the result of less traffic as more people worked at home and drove less.
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Coronavirus: 5 Ways to Control What You Can
During a crisis, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed. Left unrecognized or ignored, anxiety and stress can have negative consequences on your physical, emotional, and mental health. Try these five strategies to manage your feelings.
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Pulmonary Rehab Can Help People With COPD, So Why Do So Few Get It?
Roughly 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but only a fraction have access to a lifesaving treatment called pulmonary rehabilitation.
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'Necrotizing Pneumonia' May Be New Vaping Hazard
Necrotizing pneumonia is an uncommon complication of pneumonia. It destroys areas of lung tissue, and can occur even if someone has been treated with antibiotics, according to a previous review in Biomed Central.
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Dirty Air Cuts Millions of Lives Short Worldwide: Study
Researchers calculate that air pollution actually has a bigger impact on life expectancy than tobacco smoking, HIV/AIDS or violence.
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Weight Gain Is No Friend to Aging Lungs
While lung function decreases naturally as people age, researchers linked moderate or significant weight gain to an even sharper decline.
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Drug May Help Tough-to-Treat Chronic Cough
The trial was funded by the drug's maker, Merck, and involved 253 American and British participants. All had suffered from an unexplained or untreatable cough that had lasted for an average of almost 15 years.
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What Works Best to Ease Flare-Ups of COPD?
There's not enough evidence to recommend newer treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Lung Diseases on the Rise Worldwide
Aging and risk factors such as smoking, pollution and overweight/obesity are among the other major risk factors for chronic lung diseases, according to the analysis of data from 195 countries.
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Why Vaping Emergencies May Be Missed
The vaping illness known as EVALI (electronic cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injury) has so far killed nearly 60 people in the United States. More than 2,600 have been hospitalized.
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Vaping Is the Darling of Instagram
Researchers discovered that Instagram posts that promote use of the devices outnumber anti-vaping content by a shocking ratio of 10,000 to 1.
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More Studies Link Vaping to Asthma, COPD
Lung illnesses and deaths from vaping have been grabbing headlines for months, and now two new studies offer fresh evidence pointing to long-term respiratory concerns.
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Texas Teen, 15, Youngest to Die From Vaping
In a statement on Dec. 31, Texas officials said the teen had "a chronic underlying medical condition," but did not identify the condition, the patient's gender or what products the teens had been vaping.
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What Are the Early Warning Signs of Vaping Illness?
Many people have been hospitalized, and some have died from vaping illness. But how do you know if you have it? Here’s what to look out for.
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Vaping Tied to Lung Illness Seen in Metalworkers
The disease, called hard-metal pneumoconiosis or "cobalt lung," usually occurs when people inhale mineral dusts caused by metal grinding, said senior researcher Dr. Kirk Jones, a pathologist with the University of California, San Francisco.
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Doctors Spot a New, Severe Lung Illness Tied to Vaping
The condition is similar to "popcorn lung," which is seen in workers exposed to the chemical flavoring diacetyl, an ingredient used to produce microwave popcorn, researchers said.
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Feather Bedding Caused Man's Serious Lung Illness
Taylor was told to remove the feather bedding from his home and prescribed steroids, which improved his condition within two days.
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Wildfire Smoke Threatens Health for Miles Around
Firefighters this month have been battling blazes from one end of California to the other. The whipping winds fanning the flames have helped distribute noxious particles far and wide.
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Air Pollution Kills as Many People as Cigarettes
The American Lung Association’s 2019 “State of the Air” report shows that more than 141 million people live in counties with unhealthy air, an increase of 7 million people from the 2018 report.
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One Dead in NC Legionnaires' Outbreak
Confirmed cases of Legionnaires disease linked to a North Carolina state fair now stand at 79, including 55 people hospitalized and one death.
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