a Department of Chest Medicine, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds IP33 2QZ, UK, b Department of Radiology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK Dr R Mahadeva, Dept of Respiratory Medicine ...

1 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Bath, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, ...

Environmental Health Department (Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr D C Christiani, ...

Everything about ventilator associated pneumonia is contentious. What is the microbial pathogenesis? How can it be prevented? How should it be treated? One strongly advocated preventive strategy ...

Background With higher valency pneumococcal vaccines on the horizon and new adult immunisation strategies under discussion, ...

Atypical radiological manifestation of sarcoidosis presenting with an anterior mediastinal mass ...

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK Mr D A Waller, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK. BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to compare ...

Despite recent initiatives, the UK is failing adequately to address the inequities in healthcare provision for children with rare lung disease Money drives research—whether it is for profit by drug ...

A key objective of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) audit was to determine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised adults given a primary ...

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 900 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA Dr D B ...

Nitric oxide is endogenously released in the airways by nitric oxide synthase. Functionally, two isoforms of this enzyme exist: constitutive and inducible. The former seems to protect airways from ...

Cigarette smoke causes significant oxidant stress which is further enhanced by recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells to the lung. Polymorphisms in some detoxification enzymes are thought to ...