Tag: indoor air quality
The Diagnostic Dilemma – Physician Detectives
December 12th, 2015, 2 Comments
Physicians today are faced with a problem in diagnostics that was historically rare rare in medical science. Formally, disease and injuries affected single organs or bodily systems. Today, the frequency of multi-system illness has led to remarkable discoveries in areas of autoimmune disease and the origins of multiple organ failure. A frequent cause of both […]
Carbon Monoxide: It’s Not Just at Home
January 7th, 2012, No Comments
It’s winter and we’re all hearing from the media about being careful with our indoor fuels. People die from carbon monoxide poisoning, an odorless and colorless gas produced from the incomplete combustion of fuels. My introduction to this issue was back when I was in college and an employer died from failing to turn off […]
Toxics: Common Threads from Fracking to Pesticides
February 27th, 2011, 2 Comments
The New York Times published an impressive article on ‘fracking’ or the extraction of gas fuel from deep underground wells by “…injecting huge amounts of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, at high pressures to break up rock formations and release the gas.”. Entitled, “Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers” by Ian […]
The Whistle-blower Express: Calling Lisa Jackson!
October 17th, 2010, No Comments
Administrator Lisa Jackson is one of the busiest people in America. Her recent appointment to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is of enormous importance to citizens throughout the world. Not since Carol Browner’s tenure in the Clinton White House, have we seen anyone as committed to the reduction of toxic substances in our personal […]
Public, Meet “Sound Science” and get the facts about Second Hand Smoke
June 22nd, 2010, No Comments
The current New England Journal of Medicine (June 17, 2010; No. 24V.362:2319-2325) has an important article offered as free full text to online readers entitled, “Regulation of Smoking in Public Housing” (Winnikoff, Gottlieb and Mello). The introduction summarizes how the regulation of smoking in public and workplaces has led to very significant improvements in public […]
