A woman vapes with an electronic cigarette device. John Keeble | Getty Images A deadly vaping lung illness has now taken the lives of 55 people across 27 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. The total number of people hospitalized with the illness so far this year now stands at 2,561… Read More: CDC says 55 people have died of vaping lung illness… »
A second person has died from a severe lung illness after vaping, according to a lead investigator on the case in Oregon. The investigator said that the person had apparently become sick after vaping T.H.C. from a product purchased at a recreational marijuana shop in the state. The investigator, Dr. Ann Thomas, a pediatrician and… Read More: Another Patient Has Died From Lung Disease After Vaping »
Tragedy as nine-months pregnant woman, 36, dies after collapsing in hospital car park – but doctors manage to SAVE her baby girl Rachel Molloy was rushed to hospital with stomach pains at nine months Her and her husband, Nick, 35, believed she was going into labour She collapsed from a ruptured aneurysm in the artery… Read More: Pregnant mother, 36, died after collapsing in a hospital car… »
(Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for UNICEF) Former NBA star Dikembe Mutombo is mourning the death of the 8-year-old African boy that he flew to the United States earlier this month for surgery to remove a tumor. The child, Matadi Sela Petit of Kinshasa, Congo, died after suffering a “rare and unpredictable genetic reaction to… Read More: 8-year-old African child who was flown to the U.S. for… »