More than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years from lung disease, a new study confirms. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health say the deaths would be attributed to smoking habits and the common practice of burning coal and wood for cooking and heating.

The study, which is published online on Saturday by the British journal The Lancet looked at a 30-year period, spanning the last five and the next 25. More than half of Chinese men population smoke and more than 70 percent of Chinese households use solid fuels that are a major source of indoor air pollution, the study says

Potentially harmful cosmetic-related chemicals have been found in cosmetics and body care products used on a daily basis, according to a study by a Washington, D.C.-based environmental group.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) tests and detected 16 chemicals in blood and urine samples from 20 teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 19 that they say could be linked to health risks such as cancer and hormone disruption

Herpes simplex virus that causes genital herpes has infected more than half a billion people and nearly 24 million new cases happen per year, World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new study.

In the first global estimate of the prevalence and incidence of this incurable disease by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection, researchers found that 536 million people aged 15-49 are infected with it, which makes it 16 percent of people in that age range

Researchers now say that controlling the obesity-linked inflammation in a key part of the brain may help keep down weight.

The new study, published in the latest issue of the journal Cell, shows that Obesity is known to increase inflammation throughout the body and curbing it can help control the obesity to some extent

People with asthma who are overweight or obese do not respond well to the inhaled steroids that are often used to treat the disease, new studies have found.

Asthma treatments are 40 percent less effective in obese asthmatic patients because obesity limits the pathways by which steroids reduce inflammation in the body, researchers from the National Jewish Health in Denver said