Dr Simeonova (center) and Dr Scales (right) at ATS Welcome to Season Seven of the Air Health Our Health podcast- it is hard to believe that we are coming up…
My asthma patients can tell you there are times of year that they dread- worsened shortness of breath, need for medications, and often dramatically increased healthcare bills from ER visits…
As a lung doctor, I am very familiar with how humans breathe. We generate a significant amount of carbon dioxide in our bodies and need to exhale it. When we…
Throughout human history, the burning of crops has been part of agriculture. However, we live in a world with multiple sources of pollution, have longer lifespans, and as population density…
Those of us who work in healthcare are often confronted with how climate change affects human health. It is also important for us to recognize that healthcare makes up 18%…
Happy holidays! This post is being released shortly after Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. I’m sure, like many of you, the gift-giving…
All parents find themselves worrying about their children's present health and what the future holds. I am no different. There are many facts of climate change I have seen in…
As an ICU doctor I live in worst case scenario land. I think people often think something's not harmful because they see people doing it, and they're not dropping dead…
One of my more striking memories as an ICU doctor was a heat dome that occurred early in June one year where temperatures soared to 116 in the Pacific Northwest,…
It seems that once in a lifetime events are happening every decade or even more frequently these days as climate change continues to drive disasters in our world. We all…