Ozone origins - from the EPA There are many elements of air pollution that can affect our health. I have often covered the health impacts of PM2.5, which makes up…
Groups of patients across the US and Canada helped us understand PM2.5 risks for people with lung scarring. Scarring of the lungs, or pulmonary fibrosis, is one of the most…
The ALA has released a report on the health impacts of prescribed burns. Here in Oregon, as in much of the West, wildfire and resulting bad air quality are increasingly…
Like so many other families during the pandemic, we tried to seek refuge in our own yard. This was particularly important for us to be able to visit with my…
Welcome to Season Three of the Air Health Our Health podcast! It is back to school season, and across the country, kids will be exposed to vaping and e-cigarette devices…
I had a few weeks set aside in May to record and wrap up some final podcasts for the season, but COVID 19 had other plans. I instead became the…
Today's podcast episode explores a specific county-level fight over flavored tobacco products. I talk to three people working hard to keep our kids from developing a lifelong addiction to tobacco-…
I am an ICU and lung doctor in Oregon who cares for those whose lives have been devastated by nicotine addiction and who desperately want to kick the habit. The…
I have a confession to make. I am a lung doctor who hosts a podcast and a website with the slogan "Don’t light things on fire and breathe them into…
In addition to being a lung doctor, I am the mother of three young children. I often struggle with how to understand what the Air Quality Index means for my…