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A new lung disease causing havoc among Australian stonemasons

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382240) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Oct 18

The photo has nothing to do with the text I’ve just read in our news today of an alarming warning regarding the risks being run by stonemasons who cut engineered stone to create kitchen benchtops. The silica dust created by the...

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How Polluted is the Air in Your Home?

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40848) • Laguna Woods, California 20 Sep 18

I just read a Reader's Digest article about how the products we use in our home could literally be poisoning us! Many homes are so polluted that the indoor air is far worse than outside air pollution. There were eleven products,...

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My brother is in the last stage of lung disease

Liz @dasiejanie (590) • United States 23 Oct 09

He's in a hospital on a vent, he had lung cancer and has one lung, now he has the flu, the doctors said he may never come off the vent, but I know that's up to God, it's in his hands. My brother is 54 has one grown son, and two...

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BBC NEWS - Taking showers can make you ill??

suzwood @suzwood (33) 15 Sep 09

I was reading the BBC News today and read an article on how taking showers can make you ill. US scientists have shown that dirty shower heads can deliver a face full of harmful bacteria. A third of devices harbour significant...

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Primary Pulminary Hypertension - AKA - PPH

tosha86 @tosha86 (133) • United States 27 Mar 09

Hello all, I am trying to find people that know about PPH. My grandmother was diagnosed with this about ten years ago. I am wanting to learn all I can about it. I know it is a uncommon lung disease and there is no cure. The only...

Most Widely Abused Substance

myworldathome @myworldathome (22) • Philippines 3 Mar 08

Would you happen to know what the world's most abused substance is? And a substance that has caused more deaths than any other substance combined? Surprising it's FOOD! Let me show you the World Health Organization top 4...

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Chronic Illness Blows...

Leca @lecanis (16647) • Murfreesboro, Tennessee 24 Feb 08

I would be sleeping right now, except that I've spent the past several hours coughing up blood. I've been trying to keep busy on the computer and doing other things in order to keep from getting depressed over it, and to distract...

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Do you know anyone that has a lung disease that still smokes?

cathiesblogg @cathiesblogg (753) • United States 9 Nov 07

I have a co-worker that has been diagnosed with emphysema in both lungs.. and she still smokes..three packs of cigarettes a day!

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How many have lung problems due to second hand smoke?

littlefranciscan @littlefranciscan (18327) • United States 29 Oct 06

I am never one to say one should or shouldn't smoke..but my mother did smoke and my step father too while we were growing up. I now have copd and asthma and was told that this is due to being exposed to second hand smoke.

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