October 27, 2015 Cigarette smoke makes superbugs even more aggressive, study says Superbugs such as MRSA are already bad enough.
October 27, 2015 California getting 'second-hand smog' from Asia, researchers say California is suffering from "second-hand smog" drifting in from Asia and other places, researchers said on Tuesday, even as the state's prolonged drought has made air quality worse.
October 27, 2015 Smoke-free park policies slow to catch on, study shows Bans on smoking in public parks are still fairly rare in the United States, despite more than half of states having indoor smoking restrictions, researchers say.
October 27, 2015 Taiwan reports H5N8 bird flu outbreak, OIE says Taiwan has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a goose farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.
October 27, 2015 US developing bird flu vaccine, no distribution plans yet The U.S. government is developing a vaccine to protect poultry from new strains of avian flu that have recently killed birds from Arkansas to Washington state.
October 27, 2015 FDA panel votes against label change to Swedish Match snus Swedish Match AB should not be allowed to alter the warning label on its snus smokeless tobacco products to claim they are less harmful than cigarettes, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded on Friday.Â
October 27, 2015 Subway to remove chemical found in yoga mats from its bread Subway announced this week its plans to remove the controversial chemical Azodiacarbonamide from its bread products.
October 27, 2015 Early Morning Smokers Get Wake-Up Call on Cancer For some smokers, having a cigarette is an early morning ritual, but this habit may be even more harmful than smoking later in the day
October 27, 2015 More evidence smoking raises risk of death from breast cancer Long-time smokers may face an increased risk of death if they develop breast cancer, according to a Japanese study that adds to a growing body of evidence highlighting the lethal effects of cigarettes.
October 27, 2015 Hospitalization rates in chemo trials may be misleading Cancer patients need to be prepared for serious side effects from chemotherapy, and hospitalization is one that happens much more often in the real world than in drug trials, according to a new study.