Mark Roth
When the National Institutes of Health launched its project to discover what bacteria grow in different parts of our bodies, it ignored the lungs, because the prevailing view was that healthy lungs were ...
Jacqui Boyle
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women, according to the American Cancer Society. More people die of lung cancer each year than of colon, breast and prostate cancers ...
Kids with Dogs Develop Fewer Respiratory Infections
Bravetta Hassell
A new study out of Finland suggests kids who have a dog or cat in the home tend to be healthier, developing fewer respiratory infections in their first year of life.
Until now, exposure to ...
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: It's Not Just a Smoker's Disease
This letter is dedicated to former Daily Herald reporter Tony Gordon
and the thousands of future victims of lung cancer. November is Lung
Cancer ...
David Bruce
Sharon Daly used to live an active lifestyle.
The Air Force veteran played softball for years and loved to exercise. But severe allergies worsened into chronic asthma, which sent the 59-year-old ...
Smokers With Cancer Can Double Survival If They Quit
By MARIA CHENG (AP Medical Writer)
LONDON - People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says.
Until now, there has been little proof that quitting smoking ...
Taipei (dpa) - A study published recently in Taiwan showed that drinking green tea is effective in preventing cancer caused by smoking.
Lin Yi-hsin, a student from the Graduate School of Public Hygiene at Taiwan's ...
Amanda Cuda
Though it initially drove down business, Paul Piccirillo, co-owner of Porky's Cafe in Shelton, said the state's ban on smoking in bars was ultimately positive for his establishment.
"In the ...
Breathe Easier with Asthma
Anyone who lives with asthma or who has a loved one with asthma knows how scary it can be when the simple act of breathing is disrupted. Asthma is caused by inflammation in the airways and ...
Nathan Jeffers, Point Pleasant Register, W.Va.
A typical scene portrayed to junior high and high school students is one of trying a tobacco product as an attempt to fit in and according to a recent report from the ...
Michele Munz
Nurse Lisa Meadows works on a mobile medical van that visits the area's elementary schools where as many as 25 percent of the students have asthma.
"Many children are walking around very sick," ...
John Fauber
MILWAUKEE - The troubled history of asthma drugs known as long-acting beta-agonists goes back to the 1990s when a large clinical trial in Great Britain of the GlaxoSmithKline drug Serevent produced ...
Tom Corwin
While others in Georgia and South Carolina struggle with the smoke from wildfires, the moderately bad air in Augusta is from stagnant conditions, an official said.
Even normal summertime air well below ...
Michele Munz
For many asthma sufferers, medications don't work well in controlling their symptoms. Washington University School of Medicine researchers want to see if vitamin D supplements can help.
Several ...
John Fauber
MILWAUKEE - The troubled history of asthma drugs known as long-acting beta-agonists goes back to the 1990s when a large clinical trial in Great Britain of the GlaxoSmithKline drug Serevent produced ...
The American Lung Association launched a free
State of the Air smartphone application to help people monitor
whether their air is safe to breathe.
This tool, which is available for Apple and Android, can be a ...
-U.S. tobacco-control programs prevented nearly 800,000 lung cancer deaths in the last quarter of the 20th century, but more than three times as many could have been spared had the entire population stopped smoking in ...
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It is true that some air fresheners on the market today make use of harsh chemicals to eliminate or overpower odors. "Many air fresheners contain nerve-deadening chemicals that coat your nasal passages and ...
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