Because wildfire smoke can cause long-term lung damage, prevention is the best way to keep your lungs healthy. “I have a ...

Michelle shares how shifting her mindset helped her reclaim her life after a devastating stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Payal Gupta debunks common misconceptions about TikTok trends like “the blackout challenge” and shares what we should be doing instead to maintain lung health.

This fall, millions of kids will head back to the classroom for the 2026-2027 school year, and the American Lung Association is providing resources, education and programs to ensure that all children ...

This month, we released our 2026 Lung Health Barometer, a biennial national survey of 4,000 adults providing a critical look ...

Today, the White House issued an executive order regarding childhood immunizations, which undermines the recommendation for flu shots for children and urges states to loosen school immunization ...

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By the time you take your first breath, your lungs have already undergone a fascinating transformation. From birth through childhood and on to adulthood, your lungs experience an amazing journey, ...

Finding out you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also called COPD, can feel overwhelming. Many people who are newly diagnosed have questions about what their diagnosis means, what happens ...

Most commonly, doctors suspect somebody might have lung cancer when they see something on an imaging test such as a CT scan that looks like it could be a tumor. Lung cancer doesn't always cause ...

The American Lung Association "State of the Air 2026" report ranks cities and grades counties based on their levels of ozone and two measures of particle pollution in 2022, 2023 and 2024. We use ...

For more than 120 years, the American Lung Association has championed pioneering research and driven scientific progress. We've funded close to two thousand critical lung disease research projects ...