Vaping is the practice of inhaling an aerosol created by heating a liquid with an electronic cigarette. These aerosols contain toxic, carcinogenic compounds and nicotine, an addictive substance. In Argentina, the commercialization of electronic cigarettes is prohibited. Acute lung injury associated with...
Four cases of severe lung injury possibly linked with vaping in Minnesota are similar to dozens of cases in Wisconsin and Illinois. The patients had symptoms such as shortness of breath, fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and chest pain, and some were hospitalized for "mult...
Scottsdale, AZ - (KROC-AM News) - A new study by Mayo Clinic has found that lung injuries from vaping most likely are caused by direct toxicity or tissue damage from noxious chemical fumes. The early-stagestudyis the first to examine a group of biopsies from patients with lung injury due...
"In general, I think kids are recovering from this, but it's hard to say if there's going to be any long-term risk of lung injury or asthma or other illness," Wilson said. The CDC recently put out a statement urging doctors to report all possible cases of vaping-associated lung illn...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that 1,479 vaping-related lung injury cases had been reported across the country as of Oct. 15. A total of 33 deaths have been confirmed in 24 U.S. states, with the median age...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM)- Dallas County is home to the youngest person in the country so far to die of a e-cigarette or vaping-related lung injury. The 15-year-old died on New Year's Eve and had an underlying chronic medical condition. ...
NEW ORLEANS — As the number of cases of lung injury associated with electronic cigarette use, or vaping, continues to grow, pulmonologists and public health officials are shining a spotlight on the disease, its presentation and ongoing efforts to t
VAPI is also referred to as EVALI, or e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury. Prue Talbot (standing) is seen here with her graduate student My Hua. Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside “The sudden uptick in symptoms and conditions related to VAPI comes at least ...
Patients who were rehospitalized or who died after being treated for EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use–associated lung injury) were more likely to have been older and to have had at least one chronic illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. ...
Vaping has increased in popularity, particularly among middle school– and high school–aged students, since its entrance into the U.S. consumer market. Consequently, the incidence of vaping-associated lung injury has become more common. Many inhaled environmental agents have been known to cause acu...