Press Releases

“A Future Date,” a student-produced anti-smoking PSA, will receive an official release on Oct. 23, 2008 via the BREATHE LA website and YouTube Channel in conjunction with Red Ribbon Week smoking cessation awareness events.

BREATHE LA’s 4-U-N-I youth peer-to-peer smoking prevention group is promoting World No Tobacco Day in conjunction with Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS 3 exhibition’s “I Quit” smoking cessation program on May 31. The event, which will feature student representatives from Beverly Hills High School’s 4-U-N-I chapter, lung health professional Dr. Giovanni Smith, and kid-friendly activities from Radio Disney, takes place from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the California Science Center.

BREATHE LA is dedicated to clean air and healthy lungs and serves Los Angeles with after school environmental education, asthma management, COPD research, and teen quit smoking programs.

Both houses of Congress act to override President Bush's veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (H.R. 6331) this week (July 20-26 2008) allowing most patients access to rehabilitation programs - a very important aspect for the care of COPD patients, according to BREATHE LA Board Member Dr. Richard Barbers.

BREATHE LA Pollution & Solutions Salon Series,
a new and engaging discussion of clean air, the environment and healthy living.invites Los Angeles residents, consumers, businesses, the public policy community, and other stakeholders to

BREATHE LA announces nominations for the 2008 CelebrateLA Volunteer Recognition Event being held in Pasadena on April 27.

World TB Day Forum
"I Am Stopping TB - A Disease Without Borders"
Saturday, March 15 2008

Los Angeles, CA - BREATHE California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA), in conjunction with TB Coalition partners, convenes a forum to discuss the state of Tuberculosis (TB) in Los Angeles County. Attendees will hear the testimonial of a TB patient, learn about myths surrounding TB in various cultural groups, services available for those infected with TB, and the tools necessary to help community members each do their part to help stop TB in L.A. County.

UCLA Anderson School of Management third annual Net Impact Consulting Challenge (NICC) matched Anderson School MBA candidates and other UCLA students with Los Angeles area non-profits to address specific organizational challenges in a ten-day competition.

BREATHE LA team was made up of Juan Matute, Amiee Fox, Lisa Han, Jacqueline Laird, Nicole Nasser, and Amanda Sabicer.