‘I look dead’: California woman who spent two weeks in the hospital with ‘vape lung’ after collapsing on Christmas Day warns urges teens – and adults – to stay away from e-cigarettes Julia Itzen, 37, of Los Angeles, California suddenly collapsed on Christmas Day She wound up spending two weeks in the hospital with ‘vape… Read More: California woman collapsed on Christmas with ‘vape lung’ says ‘I… »
A 17-year-old boy whose lungs were irreversibly damaged by vaping received a double-lung transplant at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, a lifesaving measure taken when a patient’s own lungs are diseased or damaged beyond repair and there is no other hope of survival, doctors said on Tuesday. Without the transplant, performed last month, the… Read More: Facing ‘Certain Death,’ Teenager With Vaping Injury Gets Double Lung… »
A new analysis of 1.4 million adults from the United States, Europe and Asia reveals that adhering to a high-fiber and -yogurt diet is linked to a lower risk of lung cancer, reports VUMC Reporter of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. For the investigation, published in JAMA Oncology, participants were divided into five groups based on… Read More: Eating Lots of Fiber and Yogurt Lowers Lung Cancer Risk »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health officials are preparing to release new guidance for doctors stressing the need to ask every patient with an apparent respiratory infection about their vaping history. Jeffrey Manzanares, 33, lies in the intensive care unit of the University of Utah Hospital while being treated for vaping injury and other lung infections… Read More: Amid vaping crisis, U.S. to issue new advice for doctors… »