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R.I. has one of the highest rates of new lung cancer...

Health Services 11/27/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has one of the highest rates of new lung cancer cases in the country, but also the best lung cancer...

THE AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION'S 20th annual State of Tobacco Control report released Wednesday says that while Rhode Island has made progress to end tobacco use across the state, it still fails to adequately fund tobacco control programs and protect youths from flavored tobacco products.

Report: R.I. improves tobacco prevention efforts, but control programs still underfunded

Economic Activity 01/26/2022

PROVIDENCE – While Rhode Island has made progress to end tobacco use across the state, it still fails to adequately fund tobacco control programs...

PICTURE PERFECT: Groov-Pin Corp.’s Susan Smith, executive assistant and manager of human resources, takes a group selfie with her fellow employees at the company's Smithfield facility. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Groov-Pin wellness programs unite employees, connect to community

Manufacturing 08/06/2021

PBN 2021 HEALTHIEST EMPLOYERS AWARDS 15-499 EMPLOYEES 1. Groov-Pin Corp. CEO (or equivalent): Scot Jones Number of employees: 85 Employees walking the grounds of Groov-Pin Corp. in Smithfield...

Fight for Air Climb Providence to be held virtually due to...

News Briefs 05/22/2020

PROVIDENCE – The Fight for Air Climb Providence will be held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Lung Association announced. The...

American Lung Association: R.I. needs to do more to control tobacco

Health Services 01/29/2020

PROVIDENCE – Even though Rhode Island has taken a step to curtail the sales of e-cigarettes in the state in 2019, the American Lung...

Five Questions With: Bora Youn

Health Services 01/05/2020

Bora Youn, a researcher who is working with professors from Brown University’s School of Public Health, recently received about $21,000 from the American Lung...

Brown researcher receives grant to study lung cancer treatment in elderly

Education 11/29/2019

PROVIDENCE – Brown University researcher Bora Youn has joined the American Lung Association’s research team for 2019-2020, the association announced Nov. 25. Using an ALA...

THREE RHODE ISLAND counties earned failing grades for ozone pollution in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 in the American Lung Association's 2019 State of the Air report. / COURTESY AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION

Report: 3 R.I. counties fail on ozone report card

Natural Resources 04/24/2019

PROVIDENCE – The American Lung Association has issued Providence, Kent and Washington counties failing grades for high ozone, or smog, pollution in its 2019...

RIMI Radiologist Receives Award from American Lung Association

Press Releases 03/01/2019

The American Lung Association has named Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI) radiologist Dr. Terrance Healey the American Lung Association’s 2018 LUNG FORCE Advocate. Dr....