Risk assessment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) still depends heavily on a familiar clinical shortcut: a ...

A 2-month-old male infant, the second twin of a twin pregnancy, born at 36 + 5 weeks, was admitted with progressive ...

Background Antibiotic therapy before presentation (prior antibiotic exposure, PAE) is reported in 11–39% of patients with ...

Introduction Acetazolamide improves sleep apnoea in people living at low altitude and newcomers ascending to high altitude.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterised by immune dysregulation and multiorgan fibrosis. 1 ...

A 65-year-old male, who does not smoke, with a history of right lower lobectomy for carcinoid tumour 15 years prior, was referred for persistent, unexplained cough over 12 months. This was ...

PM 2.5, O 3 and survival gains from China’s clean air actions among patients with lung cancer: a 20-year registry-based cohort study in Beijing ...

Rationale/Objectives Despite plausible pathophysiological mechanisms, research is needed to confirm the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythm and delirium in patients admitted to the intensive ...

2 Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA 3 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of ...

Background Comorbidities associated with systemic inflammation including cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke and diabetes mellitus (DM) are common among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Environmental factors, here taken to include pollutants, lifestyle factors and behaviours, can play an important role in serious, chronic pathologies with large societal and economic costs, including ...

Introduction The evidence that teaching self-management techniques to children and young people with asthma in schools is effective has not, to date, been the subject of systematic review. Methods We ...