Info Clinic

Svitlana Rudenko

health editor, 11 years on breathing and allergy

Grew up in a family where everyone coughed from smoking, and writes about lungs with personal motivation. Explains how one cough differs from another and when it is no longer a cold. Precise with terms, gentle with readers.

Focus areas

Cough: types and duration
Shortness of breath
Smoking and lung recovery

Articles by the author

Young person snaps a cigarette in two with both hands, showing the decision to quit smoking for lung health

Smoking and the Lungs: What Gets Damaged and What Quitting Gives

Pulmonology · 3 min

Doctor presses a stethoscope to a child's back to listen to the lungs during an exam for a cough

Cough: acute, prolonged, chronic — when it's no longer a cold

Pulmonology · 3 min

Doctor with a stethoscope examines a young woman lying in a hospital bed to find the cause of shortness of breath

Shortness of Breath: Why You Can't Get Enough Air and When It's an Emergency

Pulmonology · 3 min