If summer weather and the clothes that come with have you thinking about hitting the gym a little more often, you should know that just getting there isn't enough.It's about performing the most effective exercises in a safe and healthy way once you're there, Mike Bogden, a doctor of physical therapy at the Cleveland Clinic who specializes in sports medicine said in an interview with Weather.com. "A lot of the right exercises for your body can become wrong if you...

The weather, machine complications and traffic accidents make these the 20 deadliest outdoor jobs in America. Click through to find out which job is the most dangerous. (Thinkstock) Working outdoors might sound nice if you’re currently on your seventh-consecutive hour in a cubical with minimal exposure to natural sunlight. But braving the wrath of Mother Nature to earn a paycheck comes with its own set of hazards. Machine complications and traffic accidents are constant struggles for workers with the 20...

If a brutal heat wave or deluge of precipitation really ruins your mood, you're not alone. In fact, temperature fluctuations and rainfall patterns can impact human behavior so much, it can have global ramifications and deadlyconsequences, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University report in the journalScience. Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence. Spikes in domestic...

When a 29-year-old man in Germany decided to get his tattoo removed, he also ended up removing a mole, hidden within the colorful designs, which turned out to be cancer, according to a report of his case. The tattoo covered both of the man's arms, and his chest. He'd had it for 10 years before deciding to have it removed — a procedure done millimeter by millimeter with a laser. Several years into the process, a mole on the man's...

A weeklong camping trip can help reset a person's internal biological clock, so that it will be easier to wake up in themorningand feel more alert, a new study suggests. After study participants spent more time exposed tonaturallight and less time in artificial lighting, researchers found their bedtimes and wake-up times shifted, both moving up to two hours earlier. "After camping,the night owlsin the group showed the greatest shifts in the timing of their internal clocks," said study researcher Kenneth...

The muskox is one arctic animal that's already seeing higher mortality rates because of one climate change-spread infectious disease. (Susan Kutz/University of Calgary) Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide — posing serious threats to not only humans, but also animals and plants, a team of international disease ecologists write in the journalScience. Public health officials should change the way they model disease systems of all kinds to include climate variables, researchers argue. Taking climate into account...

Deadly insect-sting allergies are on the rise — and August is peak season, according to a new report from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology that's published in theAnnals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. It gets more alarming from there: Insect-sting allergies can strike at any point during your life, so just because you got stung once and were fine doesn't mean your body will always react that way. Reactions tend to be more severe in adults, anyway....

Have you ever exercised in summer heat, felt achy and sore after, and reached for an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medicine (think aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxsin)? If so, watch out. These OTC anti-inflammatories, also called NSAIDs, are affected by your hydration status. If you’re low on water after an intense workout, or say, an afternoon of imbibing in hot summer sun, and you take one, you risk serious health consequences, including heat stroke and kidney failure. Blood-pressure medications make such complications even...

Being struck by lightning is definitely more likely than winning the Powerball jackpot: Every year, lightning kills an average of 79 individuals, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In every year since 1968, lighting has consistently killed many more American men than women, according to the report. The data was released just days beforea lightning strike injured 12 male soldiers at a base in Fort Carson, Colo. Lightning killed 21 men in...

(Thinkstock/Jupiterimages) Outdoor air pollution might get more attention because of global warming, agricultural problems and the deadly diseases it causes, but indoor air pollution is actually more dangerous — killing approximately four million people worldwide each year, according to research from the World Health Organization. Outdoor ozone and particulate air pollution contributes to about two million deaths a year, according a study recently published in the journalEnvironmental Research Letters. As climate change warms the planet, some researchers believe this figure...

For most individuals, exposure to naturally occurring toxins, such as arsenic, is inevitable. (Arsenic exists in soil, meaning it naturally occurs in low levels in some fruits, vegetables, grains and fish. It's also in drinking water.) But when it comes to manmade toxins in the environment, such as bisphenolA (BPA), which are traced to certain consumer products, how much of any given element you have in your body could something to do with your lifestyle, not just your health, researchers...

The good news: There is plenty of time to go out and enjoy the summer before influenza season kicks in. The bad news: We could still be in the middle of bird-flu season. Researchers believe the H7N9 virus, which typically infects humans via live poultry, can now be transmitted from person-to-person, according to a study from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published in the British Medical Journal. This alarming discovery means the threat fromH7N9has not passed,though the...