During these hot summer evenings, my wife and I love to bike around Beijing’s hutongs. On every street corner and in every park, generations of families, friends and neighbors dance en …
China public health
Here are all articles discussing public health in China: air pollution, food safety and many other health issues.
Did The Airpocalypse Make You Want To Leave China?
I must confess that I think airpocalypse is a wonderfully apt and evocative new word. It’s right up there in the expat zeitgeist along with crazy bad and gutter oil as definitive …
Has Social Media Made Me A Better Doctor?
This month I hit a milestone on my Sina Weibo microblog; I finally reached 10,000 fans. It took more than two years, and I suppose I could have sped it …
H7N9 Arrives in Beijing, Advice Is The Same
I suppose it was inevitable that the rest of China wouldn’t forever be immune to new cases of H7N9, until now limited to our southern China citizens. But yesterday the …
H7N9: Tips on Avoiding Infection
So there’s good news and bad news. The good news is actually really good news: as of today, we have yet to see one case of an H7N9 infected person …
My Favorite Pollution Website: AQICN.ORG
Over these last few years, air pollution monitoring in China has progressed through a few generations. First was the website iphone.bjair.info, which made reading the US Embassy’s AQI Twitter feed …
Water Safety in China: An Interview With PureLiving China
I’m a bit maxed out on my air pollution blogging and now am focused more on other environmental issues, such as water safety. A couple months ago I invited the …
New Baby Syndrome, Part One: What To Eat in China?
I’m a bit sleep deprived these last few days, so please forgive me if I start to ramble. Everyone warned me that becoming a father would permanently destroy my eight hour …
Air Pollution Panel Discussion March 21
Air pollution continues to dominate my Beijing community’s conversations since January’s “airpocalypse”, and I continue to receive many requests for community talks and education. I think one of the better …
Air Pollution 101: Here’s Your Syllabus
Due to the incredible media exposure this week to our emergency pollution, I’ve been inundated with questions from both patients and international media about pollution. There’s still quite a lot of …
Is China Really Killing Us? Economic Observer Podcast
Last week I had the pleasure of an interview with Eric Fish, a reporter for the Economic Observer. We chatted for an hour about my six years here in China, …
Would Your Home Pass An Environmental Test?
As my long term readers know, I’m slightly obsessed with our air pollution issues, and my therapy is to blog about it. (After these last couple days of “beyond index” …