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…
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…