Air Travel Working Party: Dr R K Coker (chair), Dr D A R Boldy, Dr R Buchdahl, Mr D Cramer, Professor D Denison, Wing Commander D P Gradwell, Professor J M B Hughes, Dr J A Innes, Dr A O C Johnson, Dr ...

Environmental factors, here taken to include pollutants, lifestyle factors and behaviours, can play an important role in serious, chronic pathologies with large societal and economic costs, including ...

Background: Chronic cough that persists despite medical treatment may respond to speech pathology intervention, but the efficacy of such treatment has not been investigated in prospective randomised ...

S Baudouin, S Blumenthal, B Cooper, C Davidson, A Davison, M Elliot, W Kinnear (Chairman), R Paton, E Sawicka, L Turner (Secretary) Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the provision of ...

Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit, Level 1 Regional Heart and Lung Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to A Peacock, Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit, Level 1 Regional ...

Background: The effect of respiratory medications on risk of asthma death in the UK was studied using the General Practice Research Database. Methods: A total of 96 258 individuals with a diagnosis of ...

BACKGROUND The Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire (CRQ) is an established measure of health status for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It has been found to be reproducible and sensitive ...

A 70-year-old woman, previously treated with triple-inhalation therapy for bronchial asthma, presented to an ophthalmologist ...

Institute for Health Policy Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA Dr M D Eisner, University of California, San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Ste 609, San ...

Department of Physiological Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK Correspondence to: Ms S Spencer, Department of Physiological Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical ...

Division of Respiratory Medicine, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK Correspondence to: Ms S Cooper, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, ...

First Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan Dr Masaharu Nishimura, First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of ...