Articles written by Judah Slavkovsky

Judah Slavkovsky, MD|Updated Sep 5, 2017

The persistent smoky haze blanketing Sisters along with most of the Pacific Northwest over recent weeks is a concrete, nagging reminder of the growing impact of climate change on human health. With 2016 recorded as the hottest year on record worldwide and 2017 on course to become the second hottest since modern record keeping began, doctors are increasingly recognizing that human health will suffer with the heat. One example of this is the exacerbation of respiratory and heart diseases by wildfire smoke made worse by... Full story