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.…
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…
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-…
Asthma is a disease in which the breathing tubes become very inflamed and can become obstructed by mucus and spasm down, narrowing the airways and making it almost impossible to…
The more I practice medicine, the more I see how important air pollution is to my patients’ health. It can be hard to help people understand the impact of pollution…
One of the things I try to focus on with Air Health Our Health is also Our Wealth. People often think that breathing unhealthy air does not cost us as…
“My generation was so so close to being one of the first Tobacco-free generations ever… we almost escaped…. It makes me really angry.” Youth tobacco use had fallen significantly across…
My kids started school last week. Normally, this is the week we would see school buses filling our streets carrying children every morning and afternoon. These are not normal times…
Fire in Tualatin, OR- from Oregonian Wildfires are raging in the West, fueled by high temperatures and high winds. I am in my living room, an anxious mother hunkered down…