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CHICAGO | April 6, 2021 The American Lung Association is working to end the COVID-19 pandemic and encouraging widespread adoption of vaccination. To help ensure vaccination benefit across all populations, the American Lung Association has funded a new research study to examine the efficacy of COVID vaccination for transplant recipients. The new study, “Immune response of lung transplant recipients to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination,” is led by a team of investigators from Harvard and Massachusetts General. Marcia B. Goldberg, M.D., whose husband is a heart transplant recipient, purs...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. American Lung Association and Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research Team Up to Raise Awareness of Sarcoidosis April 1, 2021 GMT American Lung Association logo (PRNewsfoto/American Lung Association) CHICAGO, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This April, for Sarcoidosis Awareness Month, the American Lung Association and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) will be partnering to raise awareness and provide opportunities for those affected by sarcoidosis to learn more about how they can protect their he...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, LUNG FORCE Heroes — those personally impacted by lung cancer — from across the country joined together virtually to participate in the American Lung Association's annual LUNG FORCE Advocacy Day event. These LUNG FORCE Heroes will ask their members of Congress to support $46.1 billion in funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), $10 billion in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, adequate and accessible healthcare. "More Americans than ever are...

Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Widespread vaccination against COVID-19 is needed to ensure an end to the pandemic, including for those African American and other communities of color that have been hardest hit. However, a warranted mistrust or skepticism of the medical community – what some call the "Tuskegee effect" – may make many communities of color understandably wary of the new COVID-19 vaccines. As trusted leaders in public health, The Center for Black Health & Equity and the American Lung Association have today announced the Better Fo...

CHICAGO | January 27, 2021 Even amid the pandemic, tobacco use remains a serious public health threat. In addition to tobacco-related death and disease, smoking also increases the risk of the most severe impacts of COVID-19, making ending tobacco use more important than ever. Currently, nearly 1 in 5 teens are vaping and close to 1 in 4 teens are using at least one tobacco product – becoming the next generation addicted to tobacco. Today, the American Lung Association released its 19th annual “State of Tobacco Control” report, which calls on federal and state governments ...