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The American Lung Association is turning the nation turquoise this May 5-11, 2025, for LUNG FORCE’s Turquoise Takeover and Lung Cancer Action Week.

Today, on World Asthma Day, the American Lung Association is advocating for Congress to re-instate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Asthma Control Program.

Today, the Senate passed a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval to overturn an EPA rule that makes sure some of the most deadly polluting industries don’t turn off their pollution controls.

Lung Association urges public to take five actions to help save lives, raise awareness of lung cancer

Lung Association urges public to take five actions to help save lives, raise awareness of lung cancer

Part of Lung Association’s Lung Cancer Action Week which urges public to take five actions to help save lives, raise awareness of lung cancer

Each year, an estimated 150,000 people in the United States are hospitalized due to pneumococcal pneumonia, the most common form of bacterial pneumonia.

In response to the announcement by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin that he will not seek re-election in 2026 and will retire after more than four decades in Congress, Harold Wimmer, President and CEO of the American Lung Association, issued the following statement

American Lung Association’s 2025 “State of the Air” report finds that more people are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution