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Statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and HHS Agencies on the Signing of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

President Obama took historic action to save lives, reduce health care costs, and help reduce suffering from heart and lung diseases, cancer, and other tobacco-related illnesses. These illnesses kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, and the new law gives us the tools to effectively address (continued...)

Corrie's Vera Duckworth Meets Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP To Discuss Living With COPD, UK

British Lung Foundation celebrity ambassador and ex Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn met Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP at the NHS Innovations Expo. Liz encouraged Andy Burnham MP to have a lung test and talked to him about living with the lung disease COPD. Health minister Lord Darzi and David Nicholson, (continued...)

Coronation Street star supports lung disease campaign

Former Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn is heading up a new campaign which aims to get people with possible symptoms of lung disease to visit their doctor. (continued...)

Cyclist Tackles Amazing Feat To Raise Money For The American Lung Association

It's not every day one wakes up and decides to ride their bike from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., but if you are Shawne Camp, anything is possible. Camp suffers from an extremely painful and rare lung disease called spontaneous pneumothorax, which can cause a sudden collapse of the lung. After enduring (continued...)

The US National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute Battles Chronic Disease In Developing Countries

The US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, which is a founding member of the Global Alliance for Chronic Disease, has decided to go forward strongly and improve its plan to target chronic diseases in developing countries by collaborating with a leading (continued...)

To Promote Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University Partners With South American Universities

Cardiovascular disease researchers at Tulane University are partnering with faculty at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to establish the South American Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Health. The center has received a five-year, $2.3 million dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung (continued...)

Singing therapy

Lung disease patients offered vocal exercises (continued...)

NHLBI funds global centers on chronic diseases and collaborates with UnitedHealth Group

(NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) A worldwide network of research and training centers will build institutional and community capacity to prevent and control chronic diseases, announced the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health. The NHLBI (continued...)

Insights Into Lung Disease From Top Notch Decisions In The Developing Airways

In the normal lung, the airways are lined by a balanced mixture of ciliated, secretory and neuroendocrine cells which perform functions as diverse as air humidification, detoxification, and clearance of environmental particles. This balance can be altered dramatically by faulty adaptation responses of (continued...)

Test Developed For Measuring Lung Cancer Risk

New Zealand researchers said Tuesday they have developed the world's first test to measure the risk for individual smokers and ex-smokers of developing lung cancer. The test combines results of DNA analysis with other risk factors such as age, diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema and family lung (continued...)

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Lung Disease

Why You Should Get Help To Quit Smoking

Are you avoiding or delaying to quit smoking? If you think that the only disease contracted from smoking is lung cancer, you may be wrong.

Apart of lung cancer, cigarette smoking is also one of the leading cause of heart disease.

The chemicals in cigarettes and tobacco and cause:

* Hardening of the arteries * Damage to cells that line coronary arteries and other blood vessels * Increase in blood clotting.

* Decreased oxygen to the heart. * Increased blood pressure and heart rate.

Also, one of the following diseases will increase the risk of having a heart attack:

* High Cholesterol (blocks arteries, including the arteries of the heart)

* High Blood Pressure (commonly referred to as hypertension) * Diabetes (impairs circulation) * Obesity * Couch potatoism (otherwise known as a "sedentary lifestyle")

In other words, the above diseases will cause your arteries to be clogged with poisons and plague. As a result, your heart have to pump harder than normal to push blood to circulate your entire body. Assuming that your heart is already at work harder than normal, smoking is nearly a invitation for a heart attack or stroke.

It is even worse if one is overweight. The risk increases drastically. This is not some small minor health problems. Nor we are talking about the small percentage of having a heart attack or stroke and survive. The issue here is about potential DEATH. Cigarette is within your willpower and control to overcome.

Thus, diet and weight loss are also (continued...)

Disease Defined, It's Types And What The Internet Has To Say About It

Most of us have known someone at one time or another with a disease, some considered curable and some not. Cancer is considered the most fatal among all diseases. Let's begin this article with the definition of the word and than explore more about the various types and close off with information about how the internet may actually be helping the situation.

Disease defined:

1. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. 2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.

There are different types of diseases, some affect the brain, others are heart disease, alzheimers disease, lung disease, kidneys disease, eye disease, skin types like acne and other parts of the body have been known to develop diseases.

Communicable Disease: As the name suggests the germs of a communicable disease easily spreads in any environment. The most familiar communicable disease is the cold that contaminates easily. Curable Disease: Brain Disease: Excessive consuming of Alcohol and Drugs leads to a brain disease or brain disorder. Scientists have proved that over decades drug addiction has been the most contributing factor for brain diseases like alzeimers disease, brain cancer, etc.

Lung Disease: Lung disease is mainly caused by different types of bacterial infections. A large number of people suffer from pulmonary diseases that cause breathing (continued...)

Do Your Part For The Environment, Your Health, And Your Wallet

Vehicle owners nationwide have the same complaint; the high price of gasoline. It's as if you're going to work just to pay for the gas to fill up your tank. Everyone knows when the price of oil goes up, the cost of everything else rises. And the price of keeping your engine running smooth always puts you back in the hole financially.

People who dwell in larger cities constantly breathe in poisons released in the air. Research on this pollution problem is well established. Pollutants coming from cars and trucks are responsible for lung disease, lung cancer and asthma. But that's not all. New research has shown that the poisons coming from our cars and trucks are responsible for increases in many types of cancers, heart disease, and even Alzheimer's disease.

An Easy Way to Help Stop Pollution and Save Your Lungs

A good suggestion would be to find a product that reduces toxicity in the air, while extending the life expectancy of your car's engine. Ideally, the product should be effective when used in small amounts and be unique (can be used in gasoline, diesel, RFG, biodiesel, and propane). This product is known as a fuel catalyst, which has been used successfully for over 9 years by thousands of people, as well as city governments, large trucking lines, railroads, farming, and boating companies.

Save Money While Improving Your Mileage

Your product should save you money by reducing fuel consumption and engine maintenance, in addition to the positive environmental effects. If your product can supercharge your gas, you'll (continued...)

Asbestos and Mesothelioma Health Threats

Asbestos and Occupational Respiratory Diseases

Could your job be making you sick? For too many workers, that's a real danger. The air they breathe on the job is a health hazard. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), occupationally-related airway diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(COPD), pose a significant public health threat. CDC says nearly 30 percent of COPD and adult asthma may be attributable to occupational exposure and more than 20 million U.S. workers are exposed to substances that can cause airway diseases.

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (primarily chronic bronchitis and emphysema) are diseases of the lung airways. CDC says both diseases can be brought on by exposure to irritants in the workplace. In addition, many workers are unaware that pre-existing asthma and COPD may be worsened by the work environment.

On-the-job hazards

What kind of irritants are we talking about? Here's are some examples, compiled from CDC, the American Lung Association (ALA), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP):

* Asbestos was commonly used as an insulator and fire retardant until scientists discovered that asbestos fibers are deadly, potentially causing asbestosis ( scarring of lung tissues) and lung cancer. Workers most at risk of asbestos exposure include those in mining, construction, demolition, shipyards, tiling, electrical insulation, and paving, among other industries. ALA says it can be years between exposure to asbestos (continued...)

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