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2 Centre for Behavioural Medicine, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK Correspondence to Dr Liam Heaney, Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen's University of Belfast, Level 8, Belfast ...

Department of Internal Medicine; College of Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital and Cancer Research Institute, Jungku, Daejeon, South Korea Professor J O Kim, Department of Internal ...

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 ...

Salbutamol solution is usually administered by nebuliser in a dose of 5 mg. Little evidence exists that this is the optimal dose for bronchodilatation or that this dose is without side-effects. Twelve ...

A series of review articles on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease beginning in this issue of Thorax will consider many of the basic science and clinical aspects and provide the clinical scientist ...

Correspondence to: Professor R Hubbard British Lung Foundation Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; ...

Background: A study was undertaken to explore the pathway to diagnosis among a group of patients recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Methods: A directed interview study triangulating patients’ ...

Background There are very few data on objectively assessed long-term compliance with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). No single factor has been consistently identified as predictive of ...

Current guidelines state thrombolysis is first line therapy in hypotensive PE patients and may be of benefit in normotensive patients with right heart strain. There is, however, no specific guidance ...

1 Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, ...

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) profoundly affects the quality of patients’ lives. A systematic review was performed to evaluate critically the published literature and to examine what ...