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World health expert talks dirty
April 21st, 2017
The BC Lung Association organizes an annual meeting of world authorities on health-damaging pollutants. At a recent meeting we spoke with visiting pollution expert Dr. Nino Künzli and asked, given we know dirty air...
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Meet some of the volunteers we’ve counted on for years!
April 19th, 2017
Our volunteers provide critical support that help us to carry out our mission of promoting lung health, and managing and preventing lung disease. We simply couldn’t do what we do without them. We are particularly lucky...
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Meet Volunteer Anne Kennedy Mitchell
April 19th, 2017
Anne is the volunteer president of our Lung Association Better Breathers support group in New Westminster (also known as the New Westminster Puffers’ Club). During the week, Anne manages a dental clinic. In her spare...
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How air pollution is messing with our genes
April 11th, 2017
Air pollution can make it hard to breathe. It also can increase someone’s blood pressure and heart rate. Those problems are well known. Now research, in part funded by the BC Lung Association, suggests breathing diesel...
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Becoming Air Aware: How Canada’s AQHI Can Help You
April 5th, 2017
The Air Quality Health Index or “AQHI” is a scale designed to help you understand what the air quality around you means to your health. It’s a health protection tool designed to help you make decisions to protect your...
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Learning to live with COPD
April 3rd, 2017
Gina Walton was diagnosed with COPD, a progressive, chronic lung disease about 10 years ago. She has been a member of the Langley Better Breathers Group for the past five. We sat down with Gina to learn a bit more:When...
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Air pollution at home
March 31st, 2017
When we speak of air pollution, we generally think about the air outside. However, the vast majority of our time is spent indoors. Few studies have looked at how outdoor air pollution affects indoor air quality. ...
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When it comes to quitting smoking, it can be tough to know how to get started
March 30th, 2017
Naresh Heera, Respiratory Therapist at Peace Arch Hospital, shares his tips on how to get on the road to a smoke-free life: 1. Start with the physical addiction I start by helping my clients focus on the physical...
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Building Smart with Radon Mitigation
March 24th, 2017
Radon gas is the leading cause of lung cancer in never-smokers and the number one carcinogenic environmental exposure in Canada.To help educate the building industry on how to test and mitigate for radon gas, we ...
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Breathing better with exercise, fellowship, and support
March 16th, 2017
When Ken Fisher talks about being diagnosed with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) he tells the story of the Queen of the North, a ferry that ran aground and sank in 2006 after failing to make a planned...
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