Press Releases

On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2023, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), of which The American Thoracic Society is a founding member, is encouraging policy makers to take steps to prevent young people from taking up smoking.

The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), of which the American Thoracic Society is a founding member, is calling on health care leaders and policy makers to ensure access to effective, quality-assured medications, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

In support of World Tuberculosis Day March 24, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies, of which the American Thoracic Society is a founding member, is determined to break the chain of TB transmission.

The 2023 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease or GOLD report is proposing a new definition of COPD, one that acknowledges the key pathogenic role of tobacco smoking but accounts for other factors that also contribute to COPD.

Each health system will prioritize vaccine rates among high-risk adults with lung disease across different populations.

Dec. 2, 2022─ In a new study published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers sought to determine the percentage of COVID-19 patients discharged from the hospital who had a type of fibrotic lung damage, known as interstitial lung disease, that requires ongoing follow-up care. These patients had varying degrees of COVID-19 severity at hospital admission.

On World AIDS Day, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies calls for increased access to lung cancer screening, but regions most affected lack resources.