The American Lung Association said Pittsburgh was last in the nation in one of three measures of air quality.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Doctor DeMeo says some of the people in the study did not smoke much but still developed severe lung disease.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

This is especially true if they result from drugs,infection, sight or hearing problems, head injury,and heart or lung problems.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Pliny and the Greek geographer Strabo both noted that slaves making cloth with the material developed lung problems.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

But a drop in oxygen levels can cause a health emergency in people with heart or lung problems.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

C.D.C. official Janet Collins says breathing secondhand smoke has immediate harmful effects on a person's heart-and-lung system.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

They also say persons with heart or lung problems should seek advice from their doctor before flying.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Thirty percent of the devices had high levels of Mycobacterium avium, an organism linked to lung disease.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

In two thousand five, he successfully completed the American Lung Association Open Airways for Schools Program.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Nonsmokers are also affected. Thousands in the United States die each year from heart disease and lung cancer from breathing other people's tobacco smoke.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

GINA is a joint effort between the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

GINA is a joint effort of the World Health Organization and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of America's National Institutes of Health.

VOA: special.2010.09.07

Messner said when he reached the top he felt like a single giant lung.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Doctor David Gross is a lung specialist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital of Washington.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The American Lung Association says half of the fifty states have passed smoke-free laws.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute said the drop was mainly the result of fewer cases of lung, prostate and colorectal cancer in men.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

and a greater loss of lung function than men.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

This week we talk about the lung disease asthma.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

"In simple terms, things such as type two diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases of a variety of types, and lung diseases and so on, are all found at higher than the comparison rates within the country, in many of these countries with indigenous populations."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Jesse Owens died of lung cancer in 1980 and Luz Long was killed in action during World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19