Once indoors, radon can build up to dangerous levels and release radioactive particles that attack your lungs with dangerous, ...

House for advancing a clean three-year reauthorization of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s enhanced advance premium tax credits. This vote marks an important first step for millions of people who rely ...

“Patients with pulmonary edema generally describe breathlessness. Sometimes they feel like they are suffocating or breathing ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) has a high mortality rate if untreated. Unfortunately, the disease is not consistently diagnosed or treated across the United States. To improve the diagnosis and care of ...

We currently know that COPD, and specifically emphysema, is not just a lung disease found alongside lung cancer; it increases ...

Just now, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill which, if enacted, would extend the enhanced healthcare tax credits for three years. American Lung Association President and CEO Ha ...

January is National Radon Action Month, and the American Lung Association is raising awareness of the potential health risks of radon and the importance of home testing. Exposure to radon is the ...

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Yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s announced new childhood immunization recommendations. In response, Harold Wimmer, President and CEO of the American Lung ...

There are different types of medicines and delivery devices to treat COPD. A nebulizer is a device that turns the liquid medicine into a mist which is then inhaled through a mouthpiece or a mask.

Anyone can get lung cancer. Lung cancer happens when cells in the lung mutate or change. Various factors can cause this mutation (a permanent change in the DNA sequence of a gene) to happen. Most ...