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