E-cigarettes significantly raise users’ risk of developing chronic lung disease, with dual e-cigarette and combustible cigarette use posing the greatest threat to smokers’ health, according to a first-of-its-kind study.

In today’s reality of fast-paced healthcare and over-the-counter self-medication, older patients could be taking a potentially dangerous cocktail of drugs every day.

Frailty and cognitive decline may cause geriatric patients to fare worse in a traditional cardiac ICU than expected, according to a Dec. 9 scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Natural compounds mixed into THC vaping liquids could generate toxic chemicals when heated and inhaled, according to research out of Portland State University in Oregon.

Updated screening technologies and more widespread use of statins have rendered aspirin ineffective for the primary prevention of CVD, according to a study published in Family Practice.

Results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey, released Dec. 5 by the CDC, reveal that 6.2 million middle- and high-school students have used a tobacco product in the past month.

Smoking e-cigarettes could have potentially deleterious effects on a person’s mental health, according to a JAMA Network Open study that solidified a link between vaping and self-reported clinical depression.

Researchers have established a strong connection between depression and heart disease or stroke, with more severe cases of the mood disorder tied to increasingly greater odds of adverse CV events.