April 12, 2023 Addiction Study shows menthol flavour especially harmful to vape users. How a smoking-cessation product originally intended for harm reduction has been tainted by marketing and now increases the risk of harm among those who never smoked but have taken up vaping.
April 11, 2023 Biomedical Engineering A small shift in temperature could have a big effect on how lung transplants are performed worldwide
March 15, 2023 Cardiovascular Diesase Scientists find a good treatment target for pulmonary hypertension by uncovering gene responsible for its progression.
December 12, 2022 Lung/Respiratory Disease Chest CT findings in cannabis smokers demonstrates similar lung disease changes akin to smoking tobacco.
November 18, 2022 Lung/Respiratory Disease Chest CT study reports emphysema rates greater in cannabis smokers compared to cigarette smokers. Further investigation required to confirm findings.
November 16, 2022 Lung/Respiratory Disease Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake Remains Low Among Vulnerable Canadians
November 7, 2022 Lung/Respiratory Disease The unintended consequences of using a ventilator. UC Riverside researchers demonstrate major differences between how we naturally breathe versus how ventilators make us breathe.
September 13, 2022 Lung/Respiratory Disease Researchers present a potential test to predict a baby’s asthma risk in their first year of life and the preventive treatments that can follow.
July 28, 2021 Emergency Medicine Doctors and air pollution experts express growing concern about wildfire smoke and its deleterious health effects as the fires are becoming a more regular occurrence.