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Apr 24, 2024
Your lungs are vital organs that allow you to breathe. They take in oxygen from the air you inhale and remove carbon dioxide from your body when you exhale. Oxygen is then transported to your body's cells, where it's used...
Feb 8, 2022
So, you have a cough. Besides being annoying (both to you and likely those around you), a cough can be a symptom of more serious conditions—especially if lingers for a long time, is accompanied by fever or other symptoms, or...
Nov 18, 2019
Can’t seem to get rid of your vaping habit? The best way to begin the process is to analyze how it first started. There are many reasons why people begin using e-cigarettes: to stop smoking, to fit in with their...
Aug 28, 2019
As a lung doc, the biggest health threat we talk about is tobacco. Like Paul Simon’s old song, “50 ways to kill your lover,” tobacco wreaks havoc on almost every organ system in one way or another. Nicotine addiction drives...
Jul 16, 2019
From coughing and a sore throat, to fever, to sinus and nasal congestion, and even wheezing, respiratory symptoms can leave you feeling miserable. Potential causes include allergies, sinus infection, throat infection and pneumonia, but one of the most common causes...
Mar 4, 2019
More than 26 million Americans are all too familiar with the feeling of “breathing through a straw” — or in other words, an asthma attack. A patient of mine named Scott described it this way after being diagnosed with adult-onset...
May 24, 2018
Having asthma is like breathing through a straw.Those words stare at me every day like a billboard. That’s how Mark Millard, MD, pulmonologist on the medical staff at the Baylor Scott & White Martha Foster Lung Care Center, first described...
Nov 15, 2017
Take a breath, hold it in your lungs and count to three. Now exhale, but don’t let out all the air. Now take in another breath and hold it, let a little out, and inhale once more. Imagine: Could you...
Aug 7, 2017
When you think about asthma, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s an image of your child coughing after exposure to pollen, or maybe it’s a kid running around on the soccer field that starts wheezing. We usually do not think...
Jan 12, 2016
Fortunately, in the United States, smoking is decreasing over the last decade. As a surgeon who treats lung cancer, this makes me very happy.However, a new trend has developed over recent years with the use of electronic cigarettes or vaping....
Mar 23, 2015
Every time you take a breath, it kick-starts a complex series of events that brings oxygen from the air into the blood that circulates through your entire body. It’s a fascinating process that can sometimes hit speed bumps.“At least 40...
