BACKGROUND The guidelines on chemotherapy and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom have been reviewed and updated. METHODS A subcommittee was appointed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee ...

Background Limited research exists on screening thresholds for low-dose CT in detecting malignant pure ground-glass lung ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, King's Denmark Hill Campus, London SE5 9PJ, UK BACKGROUND We have consistently argued that mild asthma ...

Correspondence to Dr Juhong Shi, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, 1# Shuai Fu Yuan, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; shijh{at}pumch.cn A 24-year-old ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...

1 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 2 Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 3 Infection, ...

Asthma, an inflammatory disease of the airways, is a common condition, currently affecting about 9% of adults. Obesity is another disease with high prevalence in adults, and asthma that develops in ...

2 Institute of Respiratory Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia Background: Sahaja Yoga is a traditional ...

Departments of Respiratory Medicine and Immunology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK Correspondence to: Professor N C Thomson, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 ...

3 Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical Physiopathology University of Florence, Italy Correspondence to: Professor Mario Mascalchi Radiodiagnostic Section, Department of Clinical ...

Institute of Pulmonology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to: Dr N Berkman Institute of Pulmonology, Hadassah University Hospital, POB 12000, Jerusalem, ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and London Chest Hospital, London, UK Dr J A Wedzicha, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, ...