Doctors from around the country say they are seeing more cases of young women with no history of smoking being diagnosed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A French expert outlines how pregnancy, menopause, and smoking drive the risk for hand and elbow tendinopathy in clinical ...

Women who smoke appear to be more susceptible to lung cancer than men who smoke, though women smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer-related death, according to a study in the July 12 issue of JAMA.

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 ...

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 ...

Diane Stover is the chief of pulmonary medicine at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Eighty percent of the diseases she treats are related to smoking. And she's got a special ...

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 ...