Sloppy teaching and growing numbers of overly competitive students are giving yoga lovers serious and scary injuries: slipped disks, torn tendons, even strokes.

Can sex impair athletic performance? And are forced repetitions really necessary? Smart Fitness answers your workout questions.

Dara Torres jokes that she had trouble reading the scoreboard after winning the first of two events at the Olympic swimming trials.

If you read muscle magazines while working out your own muscles, you may want to rethink your routine.

Cigarette makers manipulate the level of menthol in cigarettes, keeping it low to attract young smokers, then boosting it for older ones, according to a new study by Harvard researchers.

A French study of bar patrons shows people drink more alcohol when the music is loud.

A news study by researchers at the University of Georgia finds that older folks who kept up with a walking program for four months had "significant" health improvements over a group that didn't walk.

Global warming will likely hurt U.S. health, including more heat stroke, aggravated asthma and COPD from bad air, notes EPA report.