BY BARBARA ANDERSON banderson@fresnobee.com August 10, 2018 04:20 PM Call it a pollution double whammy. People in the central San Joaquin Valley have been breathing smoke from the Ferguson Fire for nearly a month, but there’s more than a brown shroud of smoke that is making the air putrid and dangerous to breathe. Ozone, a […]
Position: Community Health Worker Organizational Background: The Central California Asthma Collaborative (CCAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and direct services, building regional capacity and advocating for sensible policies to improve health through the prevention and management of chronic disease. Position Summary: Under the direction of the CCAC Associate Director or […]
(July 25, 2018) – CHICAGO Breathing can be difficult for the 6.1 million children living with asthma in the U.S. In an average classroom size of 30, three of those children would have asthma. As one of the main illness-related reasons students miss school, asthma accounts for nearly 14 million lost school days a year. While there […]
July 19, 2018 04:02 PM A top federal bureaucrat visited Fresno on Thursday to talk about environmental concerns in the metro area’s growing industry. Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, held a community forum with regional environmental advocates, and toured sites of environmental concern. NIEHS conducts research into the effects of the […]