Gas-powered vehicles are a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Switching to ...

Heather E. will soon participate in her seventh Fight For Air Climb in Orlando. And this year, more than ever, it’s personal.

National asthma guidelines published in 2020 recommend that most patients with moderate-to-severe asthma would benefit from using one inhaler that includes both a long-term anti-inflammatory medicine ...

IMPACT Almost 8% of children under 18 (190,000) have a diagnosis of asthma. For many school aged children, unmanaged symptoms disrupt daily life and impair their ability to learn and play to the ...

In 2023 and 2024, the federal government finalized clean air protections that save lives, improve public health and reduce climate pollution. The Lung Association advocated hard for these substantial ...

Tomorrow, nearly 100 health professionals and public health advocates will meet in Washington, D.C. to educate members of Congress and their staff on the benefits of investments to clean up air ...

About the American Lung Association The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education, advocacy and ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease where there is scarring of the lungs—called fibrosis—which makes it difficult to breathe. This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and ...

What is an NRG1-positive cancer? Errors in the NRG1 gene are one type of lung cancer biomarker. NRG1, or neuregulin 1, gene fusions cause two parts of a cell’s DNA to join together, or fuse. This ...

It is now peak season for respiratory illnesses, and it feels like everyone is fighting flu symptoms. In fact, the CDC estimates that there have been over 29 million flu cases, 370,000 ...