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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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Tips to protect your health during a forest fire
March 7th, 2017
Seasonal forest fires have always been a part of summer in British Columbia, but in recent years wildfires have become more extreme, in part due to global climate change. We can’t eliminate smoke pollution, so the best...
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BC forest fires are increasing and so are related risks to public health
March 6th, 2017
To better understand the increasing burden on public health from seasonal wild fire smoke, we sat down with environment health researcher Angela Yao of the BC Centre for Disease Control.Why are there so many forest...
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Students say smoking in movies is #NotSmokingHot
February 17th, 2017
Last year the World Health Organization (WHO) called upon governments world-wide to apply adult ratings to movies with smoking because of evidence demonstrating that on-screen smoking causes over one-third of youth to...
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