Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with ...

Correspondence to Professor Michael J Abramson, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; michael.abramson{at}monash.edu Introduction ...

Guidelines have been compiled by The Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society to quantify the risks of reactivation of tuberculosis with anti-tumour necrosis factor α (anti-TNF-α) ...

Background Social media may influence children and young people’s health behaviour, including cigarette and e-cigarette use. Methods We analysed data from participants aged 10–25 years in the UK ...

Department of Child Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Clinical Institute, Belfast, UK All children experience head colds and many consult their doctor because of associated coughing.1 Cough with ...

Introduction Although formal patient registries in complex home ventilation have long been recommended 1, recent review found few centres maintain accurate records of activity 2. However, the ability ...

Introduction Lung Cancer (LC) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide. Timeliness in diagnosis is crucial, as delays contribute to worsened survival. Diagnostic delays can lead to unplanned ...

1 University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pneumology, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, D-44789 Bochum, Germany 2 Ruhr-University Bochum, Experimental Pneumology, ...

Correspondence to Dr John Field, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of ...

Rationale ADAM33 is an asthma susceptibility gene that plays a role in both airway remodelling and susceptibility to allergic airways disease. To study the role of ADAM33 in asthma we have exposed an ...

Asthma attacks (exacerbations) are common, accounting for over 90 000 UK hospital admissions per annum. They kill nearly 1500 people per year in the UK, have significant associated direct and indirect ...

Background Current reproducibility standards for spirometry were derived using a small adult dataset and may not be optimal for interpretation of repeated measurements of lung function in children.