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    An ICU bed at a makeshift, temporary hospital in Manhattan's Central Park East. Throughout New York City, many doctors who usually do plastic surgery or treat children are learning how to monitor people who need to be on ventilators to breathe.
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    Improvisation And Retraining May Be Key To Saving Patients In New York's ICUs

    Apr 09, 2020
    Pulmonologists in New York hospitals are now supervising doctors from other specialties as they try to keep ICUs staffed, and are deploying equipment in new ways. But COVID-19 is a demoralizing foe.
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    A ventilator can help patients unable to breathe on their own, but the experience of COVID-19 patients has been sobering for doctors.
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    Ventilators Are No Panacea For Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

    Apr 02, 2020
    Ventilators can be lifesaving for some critically ill patients, but they're no panacea. The experience so far with COVID-19 is that the majority of patients put on ventilators don't survive.
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    Samples of Silestone, a countertop material made of quartz. Cutting the material releases dangerous silica dust that can damage people's lungs if the exposure to the dust is not properly controlled.
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    'It's Going To Get Worse': How U.S. Countertop Workers Started Getting Sick

    Nov 21, 2019
    The story of the first worker in the U.S. to suffer lung damage after cutting a new kind of countertop material shows the way a workplace hazard emerged in this country.
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    Outside of risks from the fire's heat — and any health risks related to a long-term power outage — the main health concern in wildfire conditions is smoke, which produces particulate matter that can penetrate deep into the lungs, increasing the risk
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    Smoke And Power Outages Near California Wildfires Hit Farmworkers Hard

    Oct 29, 2019
    October marks not only fire season in California, but also the peak of the grape harvest. In areas not imminently threatened, some workers labor through heat and smoke to save harvests and paychecks.
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    A worker cuts black granite to make a countertop. Though granite, marble and "engineered stone" all can produce harmful silica dust when cut, ground or polished, the artificial stone typically contains much more silica, says a CDC researcher tracking cas
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    Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops

    Oct 02, 2019
    Irreversible lung disease has started to show up among young workers who cut, grind and polish countertops made of increasingly popular "engineered" stone. The material is more than 90% silica.
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    A woman exhales a puff of vapor from a Juul pen in Vancouver, Wash. Television broadcasters including Viacom, CBS and WarnerMedia announced they are no longer running e-cigarette ads.
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    TV Broadcasters To Stop Taking E-Cigarette Ads

    Sep 19, 2019
    Major broadcasters say ads for vaping will no longer be accepted on their airwaves. Meanwhile, in Washington, there's growing consternation and calls for action over youth vaping.
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    Patients hospitalized with vaping-related illness often have severe pneumonia, and this kind of inflammation can create long-term damage, doctors say.
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    As Vaping Illnesses Rise, Doctors Warn Of Possible 'Irreversible Damage' To Lungs

    Sep 19, 2019
    With more than 500 cases of acute vaping illness reported, doctors worry about the long-term effects on patients' lungs. And federal agencies still don't know what's behind the outbreak.
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    Public health agencies are investigating hundreds of cases of lung disease related to vaping and electronic cigarette use.
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    The Vaping Illness Outbreak: What We Know So Far

    Sep 18, 2019
    Hundreds of people have been hospitalized with severe lung disease linked to vaping. Public health agencies are investigating what's behind the alarming symptoms.
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    Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., speaking during the 2016 Democratic National Convention, said Tuesday he will hold hearings next year in response to an NPR and <em>Frontline</em> probe that revealed government regulators failed to identify and prevent dangerous
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    Fatal Disease Outbreak Among Miners Spurs House Hearings On Coal Mine Dust

    Dec 18, 2018
    The review comes in response to an NPR and Frontline investigation that revealed the failure of government regulators to identify and prevent dangerous conditions.
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    Shots - Health News
    A thick layer of smoke from the Carr Fire settles over California's Central Valley in a view from a jet earlier this summer. Fine particulate matter from drifting wildfire smoke mixes with industrial ozone and can become trapped between the mountain rang
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    Noxious Mix of Smoke And Pollution Stresses Health In California's Heartland

    Aug 31, 2018

    Low-income residents living near highways and agricultural and industrial zones are getting hit with a "double whammy" as wildfire smoke drifts to areas where the air is often polluted already.

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    A plume of smoke rises from the Mendocino Complex fire on August 8, 2018 near Lodoga, California. The Mendocino Complex Fire is the largest wildfire in California state history.
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    In Parts Of California Blanketed With Wildfire Smoke, Breathing Is 'A Chore'

    Aug 10, 2018

    As fires continue to rage in California, smoke is causing health problems for some residents. Public health officials warn against breathing polluted air.

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    An image from an electron microscope shows a type II alveolar cell, found in the air sacs of lungs. In the cell's cytoplasm (pink) are lamellar bodies (purple), which contain surfactant.
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    Experimental Lung Treatment Could Make Breathing Easier

    May 01, 2018
    Lung surfactant coats tiny air sacs in the lung. Without it, every breath is a struggle, like blowing up millions of little balloons. With surfactant, breathing is as easy as blowing soap bubbles.
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    Smoke from three wildfires inundated the town of Seeley Lake, Mont., for six weeks in 2017.
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    When Wildfire Smoke Invades, Who Should Pay To Clean Indoor Air?

    Feb 25, 2018
    Public health agencies are set up to regulate air pollution from cars, trucks and factories. Wildfire smoke presents a different set of threats, prompting some of those agencies to rethink priorities.
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    Wildfire smoke filled the sky in Seeley Lake, Mont. on Aug. 7, 2017. Weather effects concentrated the accumulating smoke, chronically exposing residents to harmful substances in the air.
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    Montana Wildfires Provide A Wealth Of Data On Health Effects Of Smoke Exposure

    Feb 24, 2018
    Last summer's wildfires handed scientists a rare chance to study effects of smoke on residents. Most previous work had been on wood-burning stoves, urban air pollution and the effects on firefighters.
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    Inhaler samples provided by pharmaceutical representatives who visit the Hill Country Medical Associates in New Braunfels, Texas.
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    Many COPD Patients Struggle To Pay For Each Breath

    Jun 02, 2017
    One in 9 Medicare enrollees have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and many of them can't afford the inhalers that keep them out of the emergency room.
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