Boston City has slated a public hearing on the ban on cigarette sales at drug stores and college campuses on Oct. 8, 5 to 7 p.m. The hearing will be at the Carter Auditorium at Northampton Square Complex.

Aside from oral arguments, the Boston Public Health Commission, which organized the hearing, will also receive written comments on the rules which could be sent by post or email

Overweight or obese men suffering from asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalised for the condition as compared to non-obese people, a new study has said.

The first of its kind study, conducted by David M Mosen of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research at Denver surveyed 1,113 asthma patients above 35 years of age, while controlling risk factors like smoking, use of oral or inhaled medications, gastroesophageal reflux disorder, and demographics that might explain the obesity-asthma association

A proposal to prohibit the sale of tobacco products in campuses and drugstores have high chances of being approved in Boston.

If the legislation is signed into law Thursday, the capital city of Massachusetts would have one of the toughest tobacco control rules in the U.S. San Francisco, though, is one step ahead as it will implement later this month then ban on sale of tobacco products in pharmacies

People with non-melanoma skin cancer are at a higher risk of developing other types of cancers in the body over one's lifetime, according to a study published Tuesday.

The researchers, led by University of South Carolina physician Anthony Alberg, followed 19,174 people listed in a Washington County, Maryland, cancer registry. They compared the histories over 16 years of 769 people diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancers, with more than 18,000 people who did not have cancer in the period

Children who are exposed to pet dogs, cats or other furry friends at home can develop problem snoring when they grow up, a new study has revealed. Heavy snoring has been linked to early death, heart disease and stroke, not to mention the obvious problems of sleep deprivation for the snorer and their partner.

Karl Franklin, the study's lead author and a physician at University Hospital here, analyzed sleep habits and other childhood hospitalizations of men and women aged 25 to 54 -- all residents of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Estonia -- and got responses from 15,556