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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Elisabeth Edvardsen, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, P.O. Box 4953 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway; elisabeth.edvardsen{at}nih.no Background Many ...

Introduction Chest binders are garments used for compression of breast tissue by transgender individuals. Deleterious consequences of binder reported include shortness of breath with associated ...

Introduction Blood eosinophil count (BEC) is a recognized biomarker predicting response to inhaled corticosteroids, and possibly biologics, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, ...