Growing up in a chaotic, violent and abusive household, Ava lived in a state of constant anxiety. Since her mother had been unable to raise her, she lived with her aunt and uncle, who both smoked.

This month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, the agency’s ...

Winter Olympians face a number of challenges as they chase Olympic gold. But one of their greatest opponents, that is rarely ...

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, EPA’s longstanding, science-based finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and ...

April marks National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, and the American Lung Association is kicking it off by offering free lung cancer screenings to District residents in Southeast ...

Tri City Rentals, a leading apartment management company serving the Greater Rochester region as well as Greater Buffalo and the Capital Region, confirmed that 2,739 apartment homes across 10 ...

About a decade later, the U.S. Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) issued updated guidelines recommending annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose CT for adults ages 50 to 80 years with a 20 ...

In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s release of the final rule today to roll back the updated limits on mercury and air toxics from power plants finalized in 2024, American ...

Overall, daily cigarette smoking declined between 2005 and 2014 among people with behavioral health conditions or substance use disorders (from 29.4% in 2005 to 24.2% in 2014). 20 People who currently ...

The goal of treatment is to relieve the pressure on the lung and allow it to re-inflate. The type of treatment selected will depend on the cause and severity of the collapse, and on your overall ...

There are different types of medicines and delivery devices to treat COPD. A nebulizer is a device that turns the liquid medicine into a mist which is then inhaled through a mouthpiece or a mask.

Anyone can get lung cancer. Lung cancer happens when cells in the lung mutate or change. Various factors can cause this mutation (a permanent change in the DNA sequence of a gene) to happen. Most ...