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Category: Lung/Respiratory Disease

June 6, 2023
General information

The health risks when the dust is settling

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.

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