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10/10/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Lung deaths and smoking diseases spike among impoverished populations

The number of Americans dying due to a chronic respiratory disease has increased by 30 percent in 34 years mainly among the poverty-stricken populations, according to a report by The Daily Mail. The researchers behind the University of Washington study analyzed the death records for chronic respiratory diseases from 1980 to 2014 from the United States […]

09/27/2017 / By Russel Davis

Reverse damage from smoking just by quitting: The body has a remarkable ability to heal itself

A recent study published in the American Chemical Society‘s Journal of Proteome Research reveals that quitting cigarette smoking may still reverse the damage done by years of tobacco use. A 2013 study once suggested that changes in metabolic profiles a few months after quitting smoking may speed up the recuperation process among smokers and may lead to such as improved lung function […]

09/26/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Using steroid inhalers for respiratory disease may kill you, study finds

The use of steroid inhalers increases the risk of hard-to-treat bacterial infection among older people, a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal suggested. While steroid inhalers are used to help manage the symptoms of asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers from the European Respiratory Society found that they also make users […]

10/12/2015 / By Carol Young

Your roasted coffee may be causing irreversible lung disease

Not only does Western civilization depend on coffee for waking up its workforce, but a large chunk of the world’ economy is also driven by coffee. The Daily Mail reports that an astounding 4 billion cups of coffee are drunk every single day all over the world. That’s a lot of java! To get all […]

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