Lung Health Foundation Offers Grants to Help Advocates Grow
Have you or a loved one shared your lung health journey as an advocate with the Lung Health Foundation in the past 18 months? If yes, you may be eligible to apply for our new LHF Advocate Professional Development and Brand Ambassador Grant!
Before the Blaze: 5 Wildfire Preparation Tips from the Lung Health Foundation
Wildfire season is just getting started. Are you taking steps to protect your lung health?
To help our coast-to-coast community prepare, the Lung Health Foundation has created this simple preparation checklist. It will be of special interest to people who live near typical fire zones – but remember, the effects of wildfire smoke can often travel thousands of kilometers away.
OPINION: As other countries cut public health funding, Canada can lead in lung health
Canada should support a landmark WHO resolution addressing the alarming rise in both communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases.
Say “Yes” Again: How You Can Help Canadians Living with Asthma Enjoy More of Life
Asthma doesn’t just affect the lungs—it affects moments, memories, and confidence.
For many of the 4.6 million Canadians living with asthma, it’s not just about managing symptoms. It’s about navigating daily life with caution. It’s about hesitating before saying yes to that hike, yes to that dance, or even yes to walking to school on a chilly morning.
New Treatment Option Moving Towards Reimbursement for Adults with Operable Early-Stage NSCLC
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is one step closer to being funded via Canada’s various provincial drug plans for the treatment of adults with operable stage II, IIIA, or IIIB (T3 to 4N2) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to be used with chemotherapy before surgery to shrink the cancer and then used on its own after surgery to help keep the cancer from coming back, if certain conditions are met.
Know More, Breathe Better: How to Tell if Your Asthma is Well Controlled
May is World Asthma Awareness Month, and the Lung Health Foundation is here to help guide the 4.6 million Canadians who live with this chronic condition. Better breathing starts with better control.
Provinces Will Receive $24.7 Billion from the Tobacco Settlement. Let Them Know There’s a Right Way to Spend It.
We’re getting loud about directly addressing the decades of harm caused by commercial tobacco products in Canada. Get loud with us.
Lung Health IS Women’s Health: 3 Surprising Facts on International Women’s Day
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, Accelerate Action, emphasizes the urgency of addressing systemic barriers, challenging biases, and fast-tracking progress towards gender equality. With this vision in mind, here are three things that we’d like you to know about lung health (and the women who are transforming it!)
Our health-care system isn’t taking lung health seriously and that’s costing lives
Thousands of Ontarians are dying needlessly because their lung disease wasn’t caught early, they couldn’t access the right specialists or they lacked treatment options.
A new collaboration between the Cancer Research Society and the Lung Health Foundation will unlock progress through translational lung cancer research
Formally announced on World Cancer Day, the Cancer Research Society Lung Cancer Translational Research Grant will soon fund an urgently needed research project in partnership with the Lung Health Foundation
