Today, on World Bronchiectasis Day, the American Lung Association is launching a new campaign to support people living with bronchiectasis, which is a chronic and progressive lung condition that ...

At its annual awards dinner in Chicago on Friday, June 27, the American Lung Association honored Michelle McMahon of Western New York and Allen Wentworth of Colorado as recipients of the 2025 ...

A thick, amber cloud of Saharan dust has crossed the Atlantic and settled over parts of the southern and eastern United ...

Veronica shares the story of her 29-year-old son who fought lung cancer, and how it has inspired her advocacy.

Livia Cohen was an undecided sophomore at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island when her advisor suggested she get ...

You may not think about them much, but as the centerpiece of your respiratory system, your lungs are always hard at work. Each day, we take about 23,000 breaths, and as we breathe, the lungs filter ...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that insurers provide cost-free coverage of preventive services recommended by the United States Preventive Services ...

There is nothing like a medical emergency at altitude to ruin your whole day. For some people with chronic lung disease, flying puts them at risk of not receiving enough oxygen while they are up in ...

Dr. Melissa Johnson discusses the past, present and future of treating KRAS-positive lung cancer. KRAS is an important biomarker in lung cancer. Dr. Sandip Patel discusses advances made in treating ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. CDC Wonder On-line Database, compiled from Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2021, 2023. Death rates are per 100,000 ...

Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body, and is a main cause of lung cancer and COPD. It also is a cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and a host of other cancers and diseases.

A History of Vaccines. Vaccines have a long and impressive history. Well before we understood how infections worked, in the late 1700s an English physician Edward Jenner learned that giving small ...