http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Children who live in households where they are exposed to tobacco smoke miss more days of school than do children living in smoke-free homes, a new nationwide study confirms. The report from investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) – which finds these children have higher rates of respiratory illnesses that can be caused by second-hand smoke and details the probable economic costs of their increased school absence – has been released in the online edition of Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-smoker-absenteeism-school-children.html Health Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:42:49 EST news234409349 Many workplaces and households ban smoking and, for some women, the effects extend beyond their office building or family home. A new study finds that women smokers who live and work where bans are enforced, even those who did not make explicit plans to quit, are more likely to attempt quitting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-reluctant-women.html Health Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:00:01 EST news234170780 A study by the University of Liverpool has found that babies admitted to hospital with bronchiolitis from a household where a parent smokes are twice as likely to need oxygen therapy and five times as likely to need mechanical ventilation as babies whose parents do not smoke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-household-severity-bronchiolitis-babies.html Health Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:47:07 EST news230374011