Dan shares his Smoke-Free Journey with the Illinois Tobacco Quitline, managed by the American Lung Association.

Yesterday, at a plenary session of the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago, the American Lung Association awarded Matt Pierce, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson ...

The American Lung Association in North Carolina and partners are inviting members of the medical community to attend the latest North Carolina Community Connections on Tuesday, September 9 at Mez ...

Your individual experience and your prognosis with PF can differ depending on factors such as age, health, lifestyle and severity of the disease at diagnosis.

Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body and is a main cause of lung cancer and COPD. It also is a cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and a host of other cancers and diseases.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common type of pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that causes scarring and stiffness in the lungs. IPF has no known cause.

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare genetic condition that can lead to chronic lung, ear and sinus infections, along with other disorders in children and adults.

Your lungs mature by the time you are about 20-25 years old. After about the age of 35, their function declines as you age and as a result, breathing can slowly become more difficult over time.

EVALI stands for e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury. EVALI is the name used to talk about the growing number of severe lung illness cases related to using e-cigarette and vaping products ...

Bronchiolitis obliterans is a rare and dangerous type of obstructive lung disease. Bronchiolitis obliterans is most commonly caused by breathing in toxicants over time, the most common being diacetyl.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an infectious condition that can cause serious respiratory illness or death. An outbreak of SARS occurred in 2003 and started in China but progressed ...

A chronic lung disease (CLD) is a type of disease that prevents the lungs and respiratory system from working correctly.