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.…
Photo Courtesy of California Department of Public Health Happy World No Tobacco Day! I’m breaking the tradition of releasing on the first Monday of the month because World No Tobacco…
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…
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…
We usually call June in my corner of Oregon “Juneuary,” because it is often cold, gray and rainy. Climate change has made this nickname increasingly quaint. I was working in…
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…
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…
I don’t remember learning anything about PM2.5 in medical school. I have since learned a great deal more about it as I have become a lung doctor concerned about air…
What happens when whole communities are affected by days of smoke from wildfires? This is happening with increasing frequency in the West. I recall asking myself these questions frequently while…