Join the American Lung Association and partners for a webinar to learn about fall and winter respiratory viruses like RSV, the flu and COVID-19. This webinar will focus on the recommendations for the ...

Did You Know? Nearly four in ten people in the U.S. live where the air they breathe earned an F in "State of the Air" 2024. More than 131 million people live in counties that received an F for either ...

Lung cancer surgery is an option for some patients depending on the type, location and stage of their lung cancer and other medical conditions. Attempts to cure lung cancer with surgery involve ...

The American Lung Association is pleased to recognize Shah S. Hussain, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with the Catalyst Award for his work on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Where the lung cancer cells are located. The size of the lung cancer nodule(s). If and where the lung cancer has spread. Lung cancer staging helps determine available treatment options. Staging ...

Access to liquid oxygen would be life-changing for David. “I just want to be able to do simple things like go to the store or ...

The American Lung Association State of the Air report issues an annual report card for all cities and counties where air quality data is collected on ozone and particle pollution.

Ozone and short-term particle pollution. The data on air quality throughout the United States were obtained from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality System (AQS). The American Lung ...

ALK-positive lung cancer patient, Lisa, shares what she would tell a newly diagnosed ALK-lung cancer patient. Dr. Ross Camidge explains how a lung cancer patient knows if they have ALK-positive lung ...

You can think of your DNA like words in a book. When something goes wrong, the words can have typos which leads to the words in the book meaning something different. In the case of lung cancer, these ...

The “State of the Air” 2024 report finds that despite decades of progress cleaning up air pollution, 39% of people living in America—131.2 million people—still live in places with failing grades for ...