Intensive exercise may be bad for your lungs

'It is believed that in the winter there is nothing like sports and exercise  to improve your health and breathing.. yet this advice may be wrong as it is recently being proven that intensive exercise may be...

Smog Exposure Linked to Early Death

A large study has demonstrated for the first time that long-term exposure to smog significantly increases the risk of dying from lung disease. The risk of dying from respiratory disease is more than three times...

MAXINE: Tasting vs. Breathing - Investigative Report

When one goes to work in the general foods preparation marketplace, one doesn't expect that they would be working in an environment that is hazardous to one's health. Not so, according to an investigative report released by the Sacramento Bee. It turns out that working in the...

Metro/Regional News - Investigative Report: Flavoring agent destroys lungs - ...

The two weren't working in a chemical or pesticide plant. Nor in a weapons plant. They didn't metal-plate, fumigate, degrease, demolish, smelt or weld.  They made, of all things, artificial food flavorings....

Token Booth Closings Start in April

The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...

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