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Scented Candles and Diesel Trucks: Start your engines and nanoparticle inhalation!
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 12, 2025 Source:Your Scented Wax Melts Can Pollute Indoor Air as Much as a Diesel Engine Reference:Flame-Free Candles Are Not Pollution-Free: Scented Wax Melts as a Significant Source of Atmospheric Nanoparticles
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Knowing the average life expectancy decline with cigarette smoking, what time is lost off your life if you break it down to per cigarette use? There are caveats.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 6, 2025 Source:A single cigarette slashes 20 minutes off your life expectancy, U.K. research suggests Reference:The price of a cigarette: 20 minutes of life?
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New approach to treatment for the 50% of people with acute eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma attacks.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 4, 2024 Source:First new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years Reference: Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD with benralizumab (ABRA): a double-blind, double-dummy, active placebo-controlled randomised trial
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Can Emergen-C Actually Prevent a Cold? In short, evidence states no.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 24, 2024 Source:Can Emergen-C Actually Prevent a Cold?
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Olympian Noah Lyles COVID run. Little risk to others while running the heat but it is the close exposure thereafter when he hugged others and was treated by medical staff when he collapsed thereafter. Let people decide but he should have disclosed his status prior to the event.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 9, 2024 Source: https://x.com/devin_heroux/status/1821632583127404565?s=42
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Study uncovers genetic links to asthma inflammation, suggesting targeted therapy potential
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 28, 2024 Source:Study uncovers genetic links to asthma inflammation, suggesting targeted therapy potential
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Severe COVID leads to higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis: research
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 9, 2024 Source:Severe COVID leads to higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis: research Reference:Post COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis; a meta-analysis study
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FDA approves new drug to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 28, 2024 Source:FDA approves new drug that may help stop a rare, fatal condition that doctors call a ‘ticking time bomb’ Reference:Phase 3 Trial of Sotatercept for Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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Trying to kick a nagging cough? It often just takes patience and time, physicians say. A foray into the natural history of viral upper respiratory tract infections.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 13, 2024 Source:Trying to kick a nagging cough? It often just takes patience and time, physicians say