Making a Difference: Virginia High School Students Spreading Air Quality Awareness to Protect Lung Health
April 14, 2017 | Editorial Staff
Meet Zoe Perry and Blake Rogers. Zoe and Blake are students at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia, and started the Air Quality Flag Program at their school to help educate students about air pollution and enable them to make healthy choices.
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Why Lung Cancer Screening Isn't for Never Smokers
April 11, 2017 | Editorial Staff
Have you wondered about taking a lung cancer test? Lung cancer screening isn't for everyone. Read more to learn about why you might not want to take the lung cancer test.
The Terrible 10: Air Pollution's Top 10 Health Risks
April 7, 2017 | Editorial Staff
We know that the air we breathe is important, but why? Air pollution may sometimes be invisible, but it can leave a big imprint on our health. In fact, we're learning that air pollution can impact our health in more ways than previously imagined.
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Advocacy Day 2017: Together We Stand- Our Fight Against Lung Cancer
April 3, 2017
| Harold WimmerNearly three years ago, the American Lung Association formed LUNG FORCE with the goal of uniting the nation against lung cancer, the leading cancer killer of both women and men in the U.S. Together, we are making lung cancer a cause people care about, driving policy change and increasing research funding.
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Making Lung Cancer Stigma a Thing of the Past
March 27, 2017 | Editorial Staff
When people reveal that they have been diagnosed with cancer, what should they expect to hear? One would hope they would receive words of support and encouragement. Unfortunately, when many lung cancer patients divulge their diagnosis, they are asked, Did you smoke? This knee-jerk response is the result of a stigma that has followed lung cancer for decades.
CDC Honors American Lung Association Employees for TB Work
March 24, 2017 | Editorial Staff
The American Lung Association is celebrating the achievements of two employees' outstanding work in the field of tuberculosis (TB) outreach. Luvette Baldwin and Stephanie Quinn, each Health Promotion Managers of the American Lung Association of Georgia, have been named Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) U.S. TB Elimination Champions.
World Tuberculosis Day: Five things to understand the global effects of TB
March 23, 2017 | Editorial Staff
March 24 is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, an annual event to recognize the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the organism that causes tuberculosis (TB).
Women for Lung Health through the Decades
March 16, 2017 | Editorial Staff
Much of our success wouldn't have been possible without the help of the many inspirational women who have advanced our mission along the way. In honor of Women's History Month, we recognize and thank the trailblazing women championing lung health.
Q&A With a Better Breathers Club Facilitator
March 14, 2017 | Editorial Staff
Finding a support system helps to make living with a chronic lung disease a bit easier. The American Lung Association's Better Breathers Clubs (BBC) bring together individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other lung disease to talk about managing their symptoms through everyday life.
The Run That Changed My Life
March 9, 2017 | Brent Green
The boy lay pensively inside an oxygen tent, struggling to breathe the cold, aseptic air; nurses and doctors gathered curiously around their little patient. The child became frightened by this sea of white coats, not knowing if their appearance might precede some other invasive treatment for his inability to inhale.
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