Each Breath Blog
Breathing is essential to life, and through this blog, we hope to illustrate the importance of lung health. Hear directly from experts, researchers, staff and volunteers about our ongoing fight for healthy lungs and healthy air.
HUD Celebrates One Year of Smokefree Apartment Living
For more than a decade, the American Lung Association has been working hard to protect everyone in public housing from secondhand smoke exposure. Read More
Antioxidants: Lung Cancer's Friend or Foe?
Dietary supplements have long been believed by some to provide your body needed vitamins and guard against disease. Read More
Innovative Study Looks to Personalize Lung Cancer Treatment
In recent years, the low-dose CT scan has helped doctors better detect, understand and monitor lung cancer in patients. Read More
American Lung Association Earns Charity Navigator Top Rating
The American Lung Association is proud to have recently earned the coveted 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. The 4-star designation is the highest rating given by the influential Charity Navigator. Read More
Can Dogs Sniff Out Lung Cancer?
Researchers from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine may have taken an important step in improving the ability to detect lung cancer. Their study, recently released in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, successfully train Read More
Another Gross Reason to Put Down the E-Cigarettes
Scientists have been working hard to debunk the belief that e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Read More
Lung Cancer Highlights from the ASCO 2019 Annual Meeting
It's an exciting time for lung cancer research with new insights and discoveries coming out of the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago. Read More
What Do We Know About Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Health?
In 2014, Chris Lim, M.S. set out to understand long-term effects of climate change—specifically, temperature variability and air pollution—on health. Read More
Pediatricians: Partners in Helping Parents Quit Smoking
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure affects approximately 40% of the children in the United States, increasing their risk for acute respiratory infections, sudden infant death syndrome and premature death. Read More
Help Us Recognize the 10th Anniversary of the Tobacco Control Act
Ten years ago, President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law, for the first time giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to oversee all tobacco products. Read More
