Health warnings printed on individual cigarettes could play a key role in reducing smoking, according to new research from the University of Stirling.

A simple viral infection in the lungs of rats can become a lethal form of pulmonary hypertension if a common mutation is present, new Stanford research shows.

Researchers have developed a technology that can remove nitrate from water selectively, preserving beneficial minerals and dramatically reducing the cost of treatment compared with other purification methods.

Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung.

Everyone knows that achieving or maintaining a healthy body weight is one key to preventing cardiovascular disease.

Daily U.S. air quality forecasts for particulate matter could potentially be more accurate as the result of incorporating NASA’s Earth-observing satellite data, according to a recent study.

Social network users risk becoming more and more addicted to social media platforms even as they experience stress from their use.

In the near future, doctors may be able to apply artificial intelligence to electrocardiogram data in order to measure overall health status, according to new research published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, a journal of the American Heart Association.

Teenagers estimated to have higher levels of prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides from agricultural spraying showed altered brain activity compared to their peers, a new UC Berkeley study has found.

Researchers at the University of Alberta have found an important protein in the cells of a deadly infectious parasite, opening the door to less harmful treatment for millions of people suffering from diseases like sleeping sickness in Africa and Chagas disease in South America.