Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis are common diagnoses in patients attending chest clinics, but little is known about the epidemiology of these diseases. We used data ...

Background The increasing number of patients treated by long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV) challenges the capacity of ...

The rationale for subphenotyping acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) arises from its marked biological and clinical ...

With the recent death of E J M (Moran) Campbell, respiratory medicine lost one of its most notable figures of the last 50 years. Moran Campbell graduated in medicine from the Middlesex Hospital London ...

BACKGROUND An obstructive defect is usual in bronchiectasis, but the pathophysiological basis of airflow obstruction remains uncertain. High resolution computed tomographic (CT) scanning now allows ...

3 Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munchen, Germany Rationale Asthma is characterised by inflammation and ...

BACKGROUND A prospective multicentre study was undertaken to compare the efficacy of intravenous ciprofloxacin or imipenem in the treatment of severe nosocomial pneumonia requiring mechanical ...

1 Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China 2 School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, ...

Introduction Development of novel treatments for cough and its management are hampered by the lack of well validated objective cough frequency methodologies. Previous validations have been performed ...

Background Cod liver oil is an important source of vitamin D, but also contains other fat-soluble components such as vitamin A. Before 1999, the cod liver oil formula in Norway contained a high ...

3 Guy’s Severe Asthma Centre, Guy’s Hospital, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK 4 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, ...

Correspondence to Professor Adam T Hill, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH16 4SA, UK; adam.hill318{at}nhs.net The new British Thoracic Society ...