World Asthma Day provides an opportunity to stop to consider the challenges of combating a disease that affects almost 7 million children in the United States. But for some children and their families, every day is asthma day.
This is especially true for those most at risk...
Comments | Posted August 30, 2011 | 8:47 PM
The headlines still haunt us. New Orleans is under water. Hurricane Katrina leaves thousands without food, water and shelter. Entire communities destroyed by flooding. But while life for many over the past six years has returned to normal, it's an uncomfortable fact that for others, the damage that lingers in...
(1) Comments | Posted June 30, 2011 | 3:55 PM
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned" is a phrase I often use to describe irresponsible behavior in the midst of a crisis.
For many of us who are invested in and committed to the fight against childhood asthma in this country, it's clear that we are in the midst of...
Comments | Posted August 30, 2010 | 1:30 PM
It was 2005. I was sitting at my desk, 14 days into a new job, when the headlines started rolling in: "Hurricane Katrina -- A powerful hurricane batters the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Alabama"; "Crisis Builds in New Orleans"; and "World Stunned as U.S. Struggles with Katrina." They were...
(8) Comments | Posted May 20, 2010 | 8:37 AM
There is a raging debate unfolding online and over the airwaves about who is to blame for the latest eco-disaster, the off-shore oil tanker that is spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico each day. We're also seeing more and more headlines looking to...
(4) Comments | Posted May 1, 2012 | 8:26 AM