Air pollution control reduces death rate - Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

Hospital Admissions: If you’re one of nine, try to cancel - A word to the wise: if you’re being admitted to hospital, check how many others are arriving on the same day. If it’s more than nine, try to make it...

Asthma: a breath of fresh air - If ever a disease were misunderstood by modern medicine, it is asthma. Although doctors finally have begun to accept that asthma may be caused by an a...

DVT: There’s another, unsuspected, cause - Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) may not be caused only by long-haul flights and lengthy inactivity – it could also be the result of air pollution.

Pollution and allergies - how to protect your unborn child - Q:What is the best way for an expectant mother, living in London, to protect her unborn child from pollution (ie, air) and also the best way to preven...

An ace in the hospital - ACE inhibitors, used to treat heart disease, may account for 14 per cent of all hospital admissions for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) among diabetic...

Gas stoves linked to asthma - Women who cook with gas stoves are more likely to develop asthma and other respiratory problems, researchers have discovered. ...

Suffocating - How air pollution is wrecking our children's lungs - Air pollution is seriously affecting healthy lung development in our children. As a result they are likely to be more prone to respiratory illnesses,...