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06 Aug
Filmmaker David Lynch Has Emphysema

Filmmaker David Lynch Has Emphysema

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...

Tobacco: Cigarette SmokingEmphysema
06 Mar
Dirty Air Increasingly Affects Minority Communities

Dirty Air Increasingly Affects Minority Communities

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...

AsthmaPollution, AirCancer: LungEmphysema
28 Nov
Smoking Tobacco Plus Weed Greatly Raises Odds for Emphysema

Smoking Tobacco Plus Weed Greatly Raises Odds for Emphysema

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...

MarijuanaTobacco: Cigarette SmokingEmphysema
15 Nov
Smoking Weed Could Be Tougher on Your Lungs Than Cigarettes: Study

Smoking Weed Could Be Tougher on Your Lungs Than Cigarettes: Study

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...

EmphysemaMarijuanaCancer: LungTobacco: Cigarette Smoking
20 Jul
Common Lung Function Test Often Misses Emphysema in Black Patients

Common Lung Function Test Often Misses Emphysema in Black Patients

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

Health Care Access / DisparitiesEmphysemaRace
16 May
Why Emphysema May Often Be Missed in Black Men

Why Emphysema May Often Be Missed in Black Men

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...

EmphysemaImaging DevicesDiscriminationCancer: LungScreeningRace
31 Jan
Pesticides at Work Could Raise Odds for COPD Lung Disease

Pesticides at Work Could Raise Odds for COPD Lung Disease

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 ...

BronchitisEmphysemaSafety &, Public HealthEnvironmentChemicalsPesticidesOccupational Health
22 Nov
Many Psychiatric Patients Are Getting Risky Drug Gabapentin 'Off-Label'

Many Psychiatric Patients Are Getting Risky Drug Gabapentin 'Off-Label'

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...

AntidepressantsAnxietyDepressionDrug InteractionsDrug SafetyEmphysemaFood &, Drug AdministrationNerve DisordersPain