Introduction Paternal prepubertal passive smoke exposure may increase the risk of childhood asthma. However, its association ...

Curative-intent multimodality treatment—combining local treatments such as surgery or radiotherapy with systemic therapy—is ...

Background The long-acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines became available for prevention of severe RSV-associated disease in 2023. While clinical trials ...

Introduction Breathlessness is a common cause of hospital admission globally and is associated with high mortality, ...

Applied Immunobiology and Transplantation Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr A J Fisher, Applied Immunobiology and ...

A common eligibility criterion in respiratory clinical trials is a per cent-predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, OLV Ziekenhuis, Aalst, Belgium 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, AZ Groeninge, ...

Correspondence to Prof Stephen C Bourke, Respiratory Medicine, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields NE29 8NH, UK; stephen.bourke{at}nhct.nhs.uk Background The National Early Warning Score 2 ...

2 School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies and School of Rehabilitation and Occupational Studies, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand 3 Department of Dermatology, King's College Hospital, ...

Rationale Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small lipid vesicles, and EV-coupled microRNAs (miRNAs) are important modulators of biological processes. Fibrocytes are circulating bone marrow-derived ...

Correspondence to Inge A H van den Berk, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands; i.a.vandenberk{at}amsterdamumc.nl Background Chest CT ...

Background Standardised home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes offer an alternative model to centre-based supervised PR for which uptake is currently poor. We determined if a structured ...