A cup of steaming tea while taking a puff of a cigarette has been glorified. But this habit may be doing you more harm than you realise, adversely affecting your lungs and gut, setting up for ...

A study led by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center found that normal cells surrounding a tumor, known as cancer-associated ...

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UCSF researchers have discovered a way to identify deadly lung infections with improved accuracy by pairing AI with a unique ...

January is National Radon Action Month, and the American Lung Association is raising awareness of the potential health risks of radon and the importance of home testing. Exposure to radon is the ...

Introduction Integrating smoking cessation supports into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, ...

Experts are warning that 'social smoking'—smoking only at parties or gatherings—also carries significant health risks. According to a New York Times report on the 30th (local time), the medical commun ...

The morning starts with a familiar motion. Fingers wrap around a cigarette. Lips press against it. A flick of a lighter, a ...

Having authored a book on the history of smoking in Malta, I realised that I had not included much information on the harmful effects of smoking on the health of the individual and the nation. Written ...

Many of the things that upset the stomach are not dramatic or unusual. They are habits that slip into daily life so easily that most people barely register them as a problem. However, over time, these ...

Researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research have discovered that certain immune cells in the lungs play a dual role in allergic conditions like asthma. While these cells normally ...

Smoking cigarettes is like a chemical assault on nearly every system in the body. Tobacco smoke carries thousands of toxic compounds, dozens of which are proven cancer-causing agents. Globally, ...