September 29, 2014 | The Detroit News
As a certified asthma educator in Detroit, I know that every emergency room visit, hospitalization, and death as a result of asthma is preventable. Still, I’ve known kids to die from asthma attacks. I’ve watched a 5-year-old suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). I see kids like this every day suffer needlessly and live a compromised quality of life because of the air they breathe. [...]