The Government’s 2012-13 budget decision to cut inbound duty-free tobacco sales will help reduce the nation’s cancer burden, according to Cancer Council Australia.

Full implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) – particularly provisions on countering tobacco industry influence – is necessary to protect people from the harms of tobacco use.

Earlier this year at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (Singapore) WHO Director-General Margaret Chan urged the world to “stand shoulder to shoulder” against the tobacco industry’s attempts to overturn Australia’s new path breaking tobacco control law.

A new lung imaging method has the potential to revolutionise the study of lungs in both normal and diseased states.

The World Health Organization (WHO) selects "tobacco industry interference" as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Thursday, 31 May 2012.

Runny nose? Sore throat? Aching body? It's cold and flu season again! But cold and flu season doesn't have to bring with it these unpleasant symptoms or cause you to spend money on medicines, take time off work or lie in bed for days (as pleasant as that might sound now, while you're well). ...

South Australians suffering from the most common fatal lung disease face an ongoing struggle with health services, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.

In an Australian first, primary care nurses now have access to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) training, regardless of where they live. COPD Online is a new web-based interactive training program developed by The Australian Lung Foundation (Lung Foundation) especially for primary care nurses which teaches participants about COPD, how to identify and manage patients with COPD, and ...

Riding your bicycle through streets congested with traffic each day won't have a negative effect on your health, a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) study has found.

A large population-based study has found that lung function and obstructive airway diseases are strongly and independently associated with increased risk of heart failure. Importantly, say the investigators, this association was even evident in never-smokers and was still evident after adjustment for smoking status and number of years smoking. This, they add, indicates "that our results are ...