Hot Jobs- Heat & Work with Dr. Maeve McMurdo
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,…
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May 5, 2025
Air Health Our Health Live! Climate Change & Your Career with Dr. Mary Rice
Slideshow intro for Air Health Our Health podcast recording- a different experience! I think most people in our communities care deeply about passing a healthy world on to our children.…
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November 4, 2024
Burn Pits and their Aftermath- with Captain LeRoy Torres and Rosie Torres
I had never heard of burn pits until I was in my pulmonary fellowship at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, but I first learned about them from my patients.…
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October 8, 2024
The Nose Knows- Understanding VOCs with Dr. Delphine Farmer
Since becoming a lung doctor and raising three young children, I find myself thinking constantly about what is in the air we breathe. We spend so much time in our…
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April 1, 2024
The Killer in the Kitchen Counter- Crystalline Silica with Dr. Jeremy Hua
Last month we heard from Dr Drew Harris about the ongoing death and disease from coal dust exposure in both miners and the community surrounding mines. We also discussed the…
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March 4, 2024
Clean Air & Climate Change Advocacy for Busy People
Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at the American College of Chest Physicians conference in Hawaii. My sister (pictured above) has become the de facto Air Health Our…
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November 6, 2023
&More / Clean Air Saves Lives / Climate Change / COVID19 / Indoor Air Quality / Tobacco & Vaping / Traffic Related Air Pollution
Spring Break- An Air Health Our Health Tour
Clear sky photo I took in my neighborhood on good AQI day- original website background Spring time is always a time to hope for better days ahead. Most importantly for…
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March 6, 2023
The Route Makes the Poison- Inhaling Flavors with Prof. Ilona Jaspers
It is very interesting how certain fruity or other favorite flavors of childhood are often seen as safe, even when we are inhaling them. Many seem to think that just…
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February 6, 2023
Fighting Fire with Fire- Prescribed Burns with Bodie Shaw
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…
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November 7, 2022
&More / Clean Air Saves Lives / Indoor Air Quality / Tobacco & Vaping / Traffic Related Air Pollution
Asthma, obesity, and air pollution with Dr. Holguin
I frequently tell my patients with asthma that there are as many types of asthma as there are people with asthma. The illness develops from a complex interaction of our…
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November 8, 2021