Dr. Bharat said the current recommendation for an annual lung cancer screening is for adults 50 and up who are smokers or ...

Men and women who smoke face similar stroke risks, but female smokers may be at greater risk for a more deadly and less common type of stroke, according to a new study. Researchers examined data from ...

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

In a study of nearly 1,000 consecutive patients treated for lung cancer at Northwestern Medicine, researchers discovered only ...

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 ...

Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly because they are starting younger and smoking more -- ...

Contrary to common belief, women smokers are not more likely than men to get lung cancer, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. They found that lung cancer is an equal opportunity killer, taking just as ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters Life!) - Women who smoke cigarettes are more likely to develop heart disease than men who smoke, with the risk for women increasing every year that they smoke, according to a ...

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

High-risk adults with active thyroid eye disease, such as smokers, women and older adults, experienced a reduction in outward bulging of the eye at 24 weeks that was similar to adults at lower risk ...

Jantra Coll, a 22-year-old graduate student in psychology, began smoking four years ago to cope with the stress of her studies. She says, of course, that she knows smoking causes lung cancer. "I think ...