I have covered multiple aspects of the health effects of wildfire smoke on this website and on the podcast, but sometimes it’s helpful to have a summary of health effects…
What can we do in addition to masking to keep our kids safe with delta? At the beginning of last summer, I was beginning to breathe a sigh of relief.…
This is a guest post by Dr. Elliott Gall of PSU. You can follow him on Twitter or see his main blog here. Degraded outdoor air quality is one of…
Es muy importante entender que la “comunidad latina” o la “comunidad hispana” en los Estados Unidos es un grupo muy diverso, que incluye personas con ascendencia africana, asiática, nativa y…
Dr. Alejandro Diaz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he teaches medical Spanish, and a physician–scientist studying lung imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He…
January is National Radon Action Month. On a previous post and podcast, we talked to Dr. Bill Field, a public health professor and researcher who is an expert in the…
The COVID19 pandemic has shown how little trust in science there is in some segments of our society. I am someone who has great respect for the scientific process, has…
This podcast is airing while catastrophic wildfires are raging over the entire West Coast, and many of us have been living in air quality that is beyond the air toxics…
AQI WA and OR September 2020 fires My patients frequently ask me whether they should purchase an air filter, and generally the answer is somewhat nuanced depending on who they…
Many of us are unaware of a silent killer entering our home from below- a silent killer that is responsible for over 20,000 lung cancer deaths per year in the…