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Respiratory Medicine

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Breathe Easy: Study Finds No Link Between Marijuana Smoking and Lung Problems

    ​Tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke have some things in common. For example, they are both "smoke." Yet it appears there are some significant differences between the two, according to a study conducted by University of California San Francisco researchers.  For starters, one causes lung proble ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    San Francisco Environmentalists Sue EPA Over Clean Air Act

    Sparing Polluters​It's Spare the Air Day, and here is why we should refrain from air-polluting behaviors. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club has joined WildEarth Guardians in a legal battle to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to hold more than two dozen states accountable for protec ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 15, 2010

    Dude, Stop That Coughing

    It's time to vaporize.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    EPA Spanks Lennar With Fines For Dust (But In Arizona, Not Hunters Point)

    Oops, they did it again. Lennar, the company that drew activist hellfire for failing to control dust in Bayview during the early stages of its construction at the Hunters Point Shipyard, is now facing fines for similar dust violations in Arizona. The company will have to pay the Environmental Prot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Yes Cancels Aug. 19 Shoreline Performance

    Oops, they did it again. Lennar, the company that drew activist hellfire for failing to control dust in Bayview during the early stages of its construction at the Hunters Point Shipyard, is now facing fines for similar dust violations in Arizona. The company will have to pay the Environmental Prot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2007

    Writer's Strikes Sends SF Government into Re-Runs: It's! ...

    Oops, they did it again. Lennar, the company that drew activist hellfire for failing to control dust in Bayview during the early stages of its construction at the Hunters Point Shipyard, is now facing fines for similar dust violations in Arizona. The company will have to pay the Environmental Prot ... More >>

  • Music

    August 23, 2006

    Sample Show

    Matthew Herbert's

  • News

    August 27, 2003

    Diseaseville

    Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

    ... the medical establishment doesn’t want you to have. Yet.

  • News

    January 17, 1996

    To Live and Die (and Get Sick) in S.F.

    What you should know about illin' in the city

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