When you think of lung cancer, you probably think of a disease that only afflicts lifelong smokers. This is just one of the ...

When Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, Clinical Professor of Clinical Science at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine ...

Across India and in many other parts of the world more women are now being diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Women who quit smoking before age 40 reduce their risk of dying by nearly 90 percent; those who quit before age 30 can remove up to 97 percent of the risk of premature death, according to researchers ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer ...

While smoking remains a major cause of lung cancer, experts are now seeing a sharp increase among women who have never smoked ...

A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of ...

Nearly 20% of new lung cancer cases now occur in people who have never smoked, with women representing the majority.

Imaging reveals swelling of the wall of the abdominal aorta. Smoking raises the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm events nearly ninefold in postmenopausal women and negatively affects cognition in ...

Recent studies reveal that smoking affects women differently, and often more severely than men. We spoke to an expert to ...