BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young children, which is ...

Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Dr A M Li, Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese ...

BACKGROUND Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has recently re-emerged as a surgical option for the treatment of end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to underlying severe ...

Introduction There is some evidence that CPAP increases intraocular pressure (IOP) at night but this has not been examined in patients with glaucoma in whom IOP lowering is the mainstay of treatment.

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, and AIDS, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical ...

Background We aimed to disentangle genetic and environmental causes in lung cancer while considering smoking status. Methods Four Nordic twin cohorts (43 512 monozygotic (MZ) and 71 895 same sex ...

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Correspondence to Dr Mark Birrell, Respiratory Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK; ...

1 David Read Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia Correspondence to: Dr ...

BACKGROUND Erythromycin has been reported to have an inhibitory effect on chronic inflammatory airway disease and chronic infiltration of neutrophils into the airway. Bleomycin (BLM) often induces ...