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...
Researchers reviewed lung biopsies from 17 patients, all of whom had vaped and were suspected to have vaping-associated lung injury. The study was the first to examine a group of biopsies from patients with lung injury due to vaping. Researchers found no evidence of tissue injury caused...
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...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published on Monday its first report of lung injury illnesses associated with the use of e-cigarettes, showing that the lung disease disproportionately affected young people. As of October 22, 49 states...
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...
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...
Many who suffer vaping-related lung damage will have long-term health problems lasting at least a year, a new study reports.
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. ...
vaping-associated lung injuryvitamin E AcetateThe electronic cigarette (EC), was initially introduced as a safe alternative to conventional cigarette smoking While initially seemingly innocuous, over 2800 E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases have been reported in ...
Notably, Layden said many patients have reported vaping multiple times a day and using a multitude of products and brands. 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 spotlig...