After switching to feather bedding, a man began to feel extreme fatigue and breathlessness Source: https://www.livescience.com/feather-duvet-lung.html
Tag: lung
This Company Is Using Mushrooms To Reduce Plastic Waste
The New York-based biotech startup Ecovative wants to replace plastic with mycelium, the below-ground root-like structure of a mushroom, writes CNN Business. pgmrdlm shared their report: The company says it has developed a way to grow mycelium into specific shapes and sizes. The method, according to Ecovative, involves taking organic plant waste and inoculating it with mycelium. After the mycelium grows…
Apple To Remove Vaping Apps From Store
Amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes, Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, Axios reports. From a report: The move comes after at least 42 people have died from vaping-related lung illness, per the CDC. Most of those people had been using cartridges containing THC, though some exclusively used nicotine cartridges. The company has…
A Teen’s Lungs Were So Badly Damaged from Vaping, He Needed A Double Lung Transplant
The 17-year-old patient’s lungs were so severely inflamed and scarred that they had to be replaced. Source: https://www.livescience.com/teen-vaping-double-lung-transplant.html
UK teen almost died from severe lung failure linked to vaping
Doctors treating a teenager in the UK for severe lung failure say it was likely caused by an allergic reaction to e-cigarettes Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223003-uk-teen-almost-died-from-severe-lung-failure-linked-to-vaping/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Vaping Illnesses Linked To Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Vitamin E acetate, an ingredient added to THC-based products, has been identified as a “very strong culprit” in the vaping-related lung injuries (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) that have sickened 2,051 people and killed more than three dozen, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday….
This E-cigarette Additive May Be Causing Lung Illnesses in Vaping Outbreak, CDC Says
Vitamin E acetate is a “very strong culprit of concern” in the vaping outbreak. Source: https://www.livescience.com/vitamin-e-acetate-suggested-cause-vaping-outbreak.html
Voyager 2 sends back insights on interstellar space
Voyager 2 left the realm of the sun’s influence a year ago today, becoming the 2nd craft ever to do so. This week, the journal Nature Astronomy published 5 new papers describing what Voyager 2 has been seeing on its journey into the unknown. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/voyager-2-new-published-papers-boundary-interstellar-space…
Air Pollution ‘Triggers Hundreds More Heart Attacks and Strokes,’ Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Higher air pollution in the UK trigger hundreds more heart attacks, strokes and acute asthma attacks each year, research suggests. A team at King’s College London looked at data from London, Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and Southampton. They calculated days with above average pollution levels would see an extra…
Vaping Outbreak Death Toll Reaches 33
Nearly three dozen people have died from vaping-related lung illnesses as the nationwide outbreak that continues to grow. Source: https://www.livescience.com/vaping-outbreak-deaths-33.html