Centers for Disease Control
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. On the main page, type "lung cancer," "asthma," "effects of smoking," or other respiratory topics in the "Search" option to access current research papers, statistics, and other sources of information.

U.S. EPA Air Quality Index
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index (AQI) tells you how clean the air is and whether it will affect your respiratory health. EPA, state and local agencies work together to report current and forecast conditions for ozone and particle pollution. Check out how clean the air is where you live! Check out this special page for kids!

Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
This educational project, for students in grades 6-12, uses online real-time data to guide student discovery of the science behind the causes and effects of ground level ozone—a particularly harmful pollutant that causes respiratory disease. Teaching aids and other links are available from this page.

UCL Centre for Respiratory Research
The Centre for Respiratory Research at UCL is dedicated to improving our understanding of the pathogenesis of debilitating respiratory diseases, and conducting research aimed at finding a better treatment of these diseases. The Department comprises a team of over 50 scientists and clinicians, based at 5 hospitals and research institutions, working on the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of respiratory diseases and their clinical applications through conducting clinical trials of new therapeutic agents. Follow links from this page to descriptions of cutting-edge respiratory research.

Respiratory Research
Access current, original research from this site: Respiratory Research is an online journal published by BioMed Central, an organization that works with researchers in biology and medicine to start new online open-access specialist journals. BioMed Central provides free hosting and technical support, including online submission, and publication.

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Bringing Science Home was funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and sponsored by the Cable Natural History Museum and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Partners include the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute and the University of Utah Genetics Science Learning Center.