Australian researchers find that obesity makes a person three times as likely to be at risk for asthma.

Michael Rolph, of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and collegues say a protein called aP2 helps fats cells store fat molecules.

According to decades of research, smoking marijuana can change lung tissue, which could promote the growth of cancerous cells.

However, the marijuana and lung cancer link is still not absolute.

According to a new study by a British government watchdog group, one in five take-out meals are deemed not only unhealthy, but a health risk due to poor hygiene standards at fast-food restaurants.

The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) have expressed their concerns of fast-food restaurants not properly washing their hands before handling food to infestations of mice, rats, and cockroaches.

A new program by Herkimer County Community College and Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare is helping to keep students in the local community following graduation from their paramedic and emergency medicine courses.

For the first time students at HCC are offered the opportunity to do their EMT with the hands-on clinical training right at their doorstep.

Dutch researchers say living alone doubles your chance for serious heart disease. At the most risk are women over 60 and men over 50 living alone with possible conditions like severe angina and a history of heart attacks.

The research can be read in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.