Gas-powered vehicles are a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Switching to ...

Heather E. will soon participate in her seventh Fight For Air Climb in Orlando. And this year, more than ever, it’s personal.

This week, the House of Representatives is expected to consider a budget resolution instructing the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut spending by $880 billion, with most of these cuts ...

Despite the availability of effective vaccines, pneumococcal pneumonia causes an estimated 150,000 hospitalizations each year. This is due in part to many eligible patients not receiving a ...

For 25 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from official air quality monitors to compile the State of the Air report. The more you learn about the air you breathe, the more you can ...

It is now peak season for respiratory illnesses, and it feels like everyone is fighting flu symptoms. In fact, the CDC estimates that there have been over 29 million flu cases, 370,000 ...

Amyrah M. is a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-area high school student who lost her mother to lung cancer when she was just 14 years old. “My mom would smoke quite often,” said Amyrah, who first learned of ...

Flu Cases Surging Throughout the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting at least 24 million flu illnesses this season, with 410,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths.

As Los Angeles area residents return to their homes in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires, the process of clean up can be overwhelming. People may be exposed to ashes, carbon monoxide and ...

What is an NRG1-positive cancer? Errors in the NRG1 gene are one type of lung cancer biomarker. NRG1, or neuregulin 1, gene fusions cause two parts of a cell’s DNA to join together, or fuse. This ...

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives released its budget resolution. The budget resolution calls for dramatic, gutting reductions in federal spending that could only be achieved by making ...

Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is a type of non-small-cell lung cancer that starts in squamous cells, which are flat cells lining the airways in the lungs. This type of lung cancer is often ...