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Filmmaker David Lynch Has Emphysema
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
- August 6, 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...
Dirty Air Increasingly Affects Minority Communities
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- March 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 communitie...
Smoking Tobacco Plus Weed Greatly Raises Odds for Emphysema
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- November 28, 2023
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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.
"The...
Smoking Weed Could Be Tougher on Your Lungs Than Cigarettes: Study
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- November 15, 2022
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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 t...
Common Lung Function Test Often Misses Emphysema in Black Patients
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- July 20, 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
Why Emphysema May Often Be Missed in Black Men
- By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter
- May 16, 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 fu...
Pesticides at Work Could Raise Odds for COPD Lung Disease
- Robert Preidt
- January 31, 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 ...
Many Psychiatric Patients Are Getting Risky Drug Gabapentin 'Off-Label'
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- November 22, 2021
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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 Unite...