Latest Press Releases
05-02-23 - On World Asthma Day Respiratory Health Associations Call for Asthma Care for All
03-27-23 - ATS Publishes Official Statement on Race, Ethnicity and Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation
03-02-23 - 2023 GOLD Report Proposes a New Definition of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
12-02-22 - Study Reveals Extent of Lung Damage After COVID-19 Hospitalization
10-20-22 - ATS Applauds the FDA and DOJ for Taking Steps to Curb Illegal Tobacco Sales and Youth Vaping
08-09-22 - ATS Research Program Announces 2021 Diversity Grant Awardee
08-09-22 - ATS Research Program Announces 2021 Nursing Award Recipient
08-02-22 - ATS Research Program Announces Partner Grant Recipients
07-01-22 - On Inaugural World Bronchiectasis Day, International Lung Health Organizations Raise Awareness
06-28-22 - The U.S. Supreme Court’s Rollback of Roe V Wade Threatens Women’s Health
06-23-22 - FDA Removes Juul from U.S. Market – An Important, But Temporary, Decision
05-04-21 - New Clinical Practice Guidelines on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis
05-03-21 - Lessons From the Tuskegee Experiment, 50 Years After Unethical Study Uncovered
03-21-22 - Breathing in Science to Eliminate TB: World TB Day 2022
02-09-22 - ATS Statement Regarding Recent Neo-Nazi Demonstration in Boston, MA
02-02-22 - Leading Lung Health Groups Sponsor Harold Amos Scholar to Improve Diversity in Respiratory Care
01-31-22 - EPA Reverses Trump-Era Ruling: A Step Towards Cleaner Air and Less Mercury Pollution
01-24-22 - Global Lung Health Organizations Partner for Inaugural World Bronchiectasis Day
01-18-22 - Joint Statement On the Implications of Philip Morris International’s Acquisition of Vectura
01-13-22 - Meeting ATS-Recommended Air Quality Standards Would Save Thousands of Lives
12-21-21 - Outpatient Management of Patients with Post-Prematurity Respiratory Disease
10-18-21 - Critical Care and Pulmonary Societies Encourage Flu Shots Amid COVID-19 Spread
10-18-21 - New: Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) 2021 Exec. Summary on Asthma Management and Prevention
10-13-21 - Claims E-cigarettes Are a Harm Reduction Tool Unproven; ATS Reacts to FDA Decision
09-25-21 - On World Lung Day FIRS Calls for Global Investment in Respiratory Health
09-17-21 - Study Finds Surprising Early COPD Risks for U.S. Hispanics/Latinos
09-15-21 - For My Lung Health Campaign Named APEX Award Winner
09-09-21 - FDA Meets Court Deadline, But Fails to Protect American's Kids from E-cigarettes
09-02-21 - Brian E. Cade, PhD, MS, Receives ATS/ATS Public Advisory Roundtable (PAR) Research Grant
09-01-21 - The American Thoracic Society Announces Rebrand
08-19-21 - Potential Overuse of Antibiotics Found in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia
08-02-21 - Medical Associations Create United Front to Reduce Barriers to Noninvasive Ventilation
07-29-21 - World's Respiratory Societies Support Community Action and Education for Lung Cancer Awareness Day
07-28-21 - Jarod A. Zepp, PhD Receives ATS/Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network Research Grant
07-27-21 - Dr. Laurie Eldredge Receives ATS Research Program/American Lung Association Partner Grant
07-13-21 - COVID-19 ARDS Focus of Latest American Thoracic Society/CSL Behring Research Grant Recipient
07-09-21 - Dr. Anthony Shum Receives ATS Research Program/chILD Foundation Partner Grant
07-07-21 - Dr. Jessica Blackburn Awarded ATS/GSK Research Grant in Obstructive Lung Disease
06-08-21 - Christopher Chesley, MD, is the 2021 ATS Fellowship in Health Equality Award Winner
05-31-21 - Policy Changes Urgently Needed to Support Tobacco Cessation, Warn Respiratory Groups
05-25-21 - ATS/Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Research Grant On COVID-19 in Underrepresented Minorities Awarded
05-05-21 - 4DMedical Teaming with ATS Diversity Fund to Improve Access and Equity in American Health Care
05-05-21 - Forum of International Respiratory Societies Calls for An End to Asthma Myths and Misconceptions
04-29-21 - Menthol Cigarettes Banned: FDA Takes Bold Action to Save Lives
04-15-21 - Hot Topics, Keynote Presentations at ATS 2021 International Conference
04-06-21 - COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Urgent Global Need to Control Air Pollution
03-26-21 - Physicians' Financial Conflicts of Interest May Play a Role in Black Lung Diagnoses
03-17-21 - Socioeconomic Factors Play a Key Role in COVID-19 Impact on Blacks, Hispanics
03-15-21 - The American Thoracic Society & dBase Media Present "Helping the World to Breathe"
03-01-21 - Paper Addresses Research Needed to Understand Smoking and COVID-19 Risk
02-25-21 - Roadmap Will Enable Health Professional Societies Address Critical Care Clinician Burnout
02-10-21 - Virtual Post-sepsis Recovery Program May Also Help Recovering COVID-19 Patients
01-08-21 - Initial Severity of COVID-19 Is Not Associated with Later Poor Health or Respiratory Complications
01-05-21 - EPA Attacks Science and Breaks Precedent in Final Data Transparency Rule
12-15-20 - COVID-19 Preprint Data Rapidly Influenced Critical Care Practice
12-04-20 - Pediatric ER Saw Steep Drop in Asthma Visits During Spring COVID-19 Lockdown
12-04-20 - National Lung Health Organizations: Now Is the Time to Prepare for a COVID-19 Vaccine
12-01-20 - To Meet HIV World Health Goals, TB Treatment Must be Maintained During COVID-19 Response
11-18-20 - Living Well with COPD - Everybody, Everywhere: Forum of International Respiratory Societies
11-17-20 - Home Oxygen Therapy for Adults with COPD and ILD: New ATS Clinical Practice Guideline
11-13-20 - Patients Hospitalized with Severe Cases of Flu Do Better Than Those with COVID-19
11-10-20 - Urgent Progress Needed to End the Preventable Burden of Pneumonia and Deaths: FIRS
10-29-20 - Amount of COVID Viral RNA Detected at Hospital Admission Predicts How Patients Will Fare
10-09-20 - Lack of Knowledge is One Barrier to Prone Positioning in Severe ARDS Caused by COVID-19
10-02-20 - Face Masks Unlikely to Cause Over-exposure to Carbon Dioxide, Even in Patients with Lung Disease
10-01-20 - ATS Research Program, 4DMedical Announce Grant Opportunities for Research in Asthma, COPD and IPF
09-28-20 - Executive Order Mandating How to Address Race and Diversity: ATS Responds
09-25-20 - Historical Racial & Ethnic Health Inequities Account for Disproportionate COVID-19 Impact
09-17-20 - ATS Research Program/Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Grant Opportunity in Sarcoidosis
09-09-20 - CDC Data Shows E-cigarette Makers Continue to Prey on Youth - And FDA Policy Lets Them
09-09-20 - American Thoracic Society/CSL Behring Research Award in ARDS Announced
08-31-20 - Asthma May Not Be a Significant Risk Factor for Sever COVID-19 or COVID-Related Intubation
08-12-20 - Physician Protests Pipeline Project; Dr. Tim Takaro Takes a Stand 82 Feet Above the Ground
08-03-20 - Challenges in Diagnosing Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Addressed in Latest Guidelines for Clinicians
07-16-20 - ATS Publishes New Guidance on Safely Restoring Elective Pulmonary and Sleep Services
07-15-20 - Experts Strongly Recommend Varenicline Over the Patch for Adult Smokers Hoping to Quit
07-09-20 - Black Individuals at Higher Risk for Contracting COVID-19, According to New Research
06-24-20 - Countries with Early Adoption of Face Masks Showed Modest COVID-19 Infection Rates
06-22-20 - New Article Clarifies Details of COVID-19 Respiratory Transmission
06-11-20 - Tear Gas During COVID-19 Pandemic Irresponsible; Moratorium Needed, says American Thoracic Society
06-05-20 - Reducing Severe Breathlessness and Psychological Trauma in COVID-19 ARDS Survivors
06-03-20 - ATS Announces $500,000 COVID-19 Crisis Fund Support from AstraZeneca
06-01-20 - ATS Responds to the Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Events
05-27-20 - Analysis Does Not Find Two Distinct Subphenotypes of COVID-19 Related ARDS
05-19-20 - Modified Clinical Trial Protocol Created in Response to Urgency of COVID-10 Pandemic
05-12-20 - Residents of Poor Neighborhoods May Have More Respiratory Problems Associated with Ozone Exposure [Abstract]
05-11-20 - ATS COVID-19 Crisis Fund Receives $100,000 Donation from Gilead Sciences, Inc.
05-11-20 - Very Few Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Are Given Exercise Rehabilitation [Abstract]
05-06-20 - Some Cancers May Be Related to Sleep Apnea [Abstract]
05-06-20 - Common Genetic Variations Found in First Genome-Wide Study of Children with Sleep Apnea [Abstract]
05-06-20 - In Mice, Chronic Inhalation of E-cigarette Vapor Negatively Affects Lungs [Abstracts]
05-05-20 - Patients with Mild Sleep Apnea Benefit from CPAP Therapy [Abstract]
05-05-20 - Dual E-cigarette and Cigarette Smokers Are Less Successful at Smoking Cessation [Abstract]
05-05-20 - COPD Patients Who Do Pulmonary Rehabilitation Are Less Likely to be Re-hospitalized [Abstract]
05-05-20 - ATS Announces GSK Grants to Support COVID-19 Crisis Fund's Research and Outreach Efforts
05-04-20 - One in Three VA ICU Nurses Suffer "Burnout"; Related to Longer Patient Lengths of Stay [Abstract]
05-04-20 - Younger Women Less Likely to Continue with CPAP Therapy [Abstract]
05-04-20 - Not All Patients with Suspected Sepsis May Benefit from Early Antibiotics [Abstract]
05-04-20 - More Than On-Third of Counties with High Lung Cancer Mortality Are 60 Minutes+ Drive from Screening Centers [Abstract]
05-04-20 - Potentially Hazardous Bacterial Contamination Found in JUUL Vaping Products [Abstract]
04-30-20 - Clinicians Warn of the Dangers of Equating COVID-19 with High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
04-27-20 - In Preparing for COVID-19 Cases, Plan Early, Communicate Often Says Critical Care Specialists
04-20-20 - First Official ATS Practice Guidelines for Sarcoidosis Cover Diagnosis and Detection
04-15-20 - ECMO Physicians Offer Guidance in Context of Resource-scarce COVID-19 Treatment
03-27-20 - Some COVID-19 Patients Still Have Coronovirus After Symptoms Disappear
03-11-20 - EPA's Revised Transparency Rule - "Worse Than the First"
02-20-20 - ATS Foundation Research Program/Pulmonary Hypertension Association Names 2019 Partner Grant Awardees
02-13-20 - ATS Foundation Research Program Announces Unrestricted Grant Recipients for the 2019 Cycle
02-03-20 - ResMed, ATS Foundation Award $100,000 Research Grant to Claude Farah, PhD
01-24-20 - Lung Microbiome May Help Predict Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients
01-17-20 - Study Finds Disparity in Critical Care Deaths Between Non-minority and Minority Hospitals
01-09-20 - Dr. Nicholas Arger Receives ATS Foundation Research Program/Foundation for Sarcoidosis Partner Grant
01-02-20 - FDA Makes Progress, but Needs to Go Further on E-cigarettes
12-13-19 - NTM Infections on the Rise Nationally; Women and Elderly Most Affected
11-01-19 - Black and Elderly Patients Less Likely to Receive Lung Cancer Treatments
10-28-19 - Respiratory Groups Call for An End to Preventable Pneumonia Deaths
10-11-19 - CF Patients Experience Improved Lung Health with Lumacaftor-Ivacaftor, But with Caveats
10-02-19 - Some ICU Admissions May Be Preventable, Saving Money and Improving Care
10-01-19 - ATS/IDSA Publishes Clinical Guideline on Community Acquired Pneumonia
09-30-19 - Women with Asthma Appear More Likely to Have Lower Levels of Testosterone
09-23-19 - World Lung Day 2019: Respiratory Groups Unite to Call for Healthy Lungs for All
09-11-19 - ATS Responds to FDA’s Promise of Future Action on Flavored E-Cigarettes
09-05-19 - ATS Applauds Governor's Whitmer's Action on Flavored E-cigs and Urges FDA to Take Immediate Action
09-03-19 - New ATS Clinical Practice Guideline: Diagnosing Fungal Infections
08-08-19 - Oral Appliances May Be Highly Effective in Treating a Type of Sleep Apnea
08-01-19 - ATS Publishes Clinical Practice Guideline on Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
07-19-19 - Ivacaftor May Reduce Common Infections in Patients with CF
07-15-19 - ATS Celebrates Court-Established Deadlines for E-cigarettes and Cigars Regulation
07-15-19 - COPD/Sleep Apnea Overlap Syndrome Researcher Awarded $100,000 Grant from ResMed, ATS Foundation
07-01-19 - Uncontrolled Asthma Over Next 20 Years Likely to Add $300 Billion to U.S. Health Care Bill
06-07-19 - The Nicotine in E-cigarettes Appears to Impair Mucus Clearance
05-31-19 - Occupational Hazards Account for More Than One in Ten People with Range of Lung Diseases
05-16-19 - ATS Applauds Court Ruling: FDA Must Regulate E-cigarettes
05-03-19 - Azythromycin Appears to Reduce Treatment Failure in Severe, Acute COPD Exacerbations
04-19-19 - Video Plus Brochure Helps Patients Make Lung Cancer Scan Decision
04-12-19 - Diesel Exhaust Filtered of Its Tiny Particles May Worsen Allergy-Induced Lung Impairment
04-08-19 - ATS Foundation/Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. Research Fellowship in IPF Awarded
04-04-19 - ATS Foundation/Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Research Fellowship in Sarcoidosis Awarded
04-01-19 - STEMCELL Technologies Scholarships to Be Presented at ATS 2019 International Conference
03-29-19 - Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids May Play Opposite Roles in Childhood Asthma
03-19-19 - Acceleration of UN High-Level Meeting Commitments on TB Focus of International Respiratory Societies
03-15-19 - Short-term Exposure to Common Air Pollutants May Increase Asthma Deaths
03-01-19 - Novel Sleep Index, Wakefulness May Predict if Patients Able to Breathe on Their Own
02-25-19 - ATS Foundation Research Program Announces Unrestricted Grant Recipients for the 2018 Cycle
02-15-19 - OSA Patients with Excessive Daytime Sleepiness at Greatest Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
02-08-19 - Puerto Rican Children Less Likely Than Mexican Americans to Use Asthma Inhalers
02-01-19 - ATS Publishes New Clinical Guideline on Home Oxygen Therapy for Children
01-25-19 - Fish Oil Does Not Appear to Improve Asthma Control in Teens, Young Adults
01-11-19 - Childhood Body Composition May Help Determine Future Lung Health
