Tag: lung health
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Australia Bans Recreational Vaping
On Tuesday, 2nd May 2023, the Australian government announced a ban on recreational vaping, which entails stricter regulations being placed on e-cigarettes. Through a heavy set of controls on imports and packaging, this marks the biggest crackdown on this industry in more than a decade to try to stop the alarming rise in teenage vaping.…
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World TB Day: It’s Time To Act Now, says Dr Yashica Khalawan
On the 24th of March in 1882, Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB. This discovery opened the way towards diagnosing as well as curing the disease. Almost 140 years later, TB still remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases out there. This year, the theme for World TB…
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Longevity Of Your Lungs: Keeping Them Healthy Longer
Our lungs are no different from the rest of our organs – between the ages of 25 and 35, they begin to age. Dr Gunter Schleicher, a pulmonologist at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, explains that this is due to changes in our vertebrae, ribs, diaphragm, nervous system and lung tissue. Did you know? You…