Asthma Awareness Month—we're focused on education, access and advocacy in support of the 27.8 million adults and 4.8 million ...

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that they will delay implementation of a 2024 rule to place stricter limits on tailpipe emissions from new cars.

In patients with milder forms of the disease who are experiencing fewer symptoms, the infection may not require treatment and eventually clear up on its own. A single fungal ball, for example, may ...

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. National Health Interview Survey, 2019-2022. Analysis by the American Lung Assocation Research and Program ...

Why did I get pulmonary fibrosis? If you are diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), physicians do not know what caused you to get the disease. Doctors try and rule out risk factors like ...

For every dollar all U.S. States spend on providing tobacco cessation treatments, it has an average potential return on investment. See how much.

Coughing and sneezing are just some of the more interesting and complicated ways the body works to protect your lungs from contamination, and these methods are performed with a surprising speed and ...

The air quality in Greater Indianapolis has worsened according to the American Lung Association’s 2025 “State of the Air” report, released today. Residents are being exposed to more unhealthy ozone ...

It's 1918, and the First World War is beginning to wind down across Europe. But another scourge is also spreading, and it will eventually take even more lives. It's influenza – or the flu – an ...

J. Michael (Mike) Wells, MD, MSPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Living with a chronic lung disease like asthma makes your lungs more sensitive than people without asthma. However, 18 percent of adults with asthma in the U.S. smoke, compared to 13.6 percent without ...

The signs and symptoms of aspergillosis vary depending on the specific form. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis has symptoms similar to asthma. They include coughing, wheezing and shortness of ...