Guidelines have been compiled by The Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society to quantify the risks of reactivation of tuberculosis with anti-tumour necrosis factor α (anti-TNF-α) ...

Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with other respiratory illnesses, low pathogen identification rates, and slow ...

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2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and London Chest Hospital, London, UK Dr J A Wedzicha, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, ...

We used data from 11 577 children in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, collected at approximately 14 years of age (early teens), to assess characteristics associated with smoking, and generated regional ...

Correspondence to Nina Leggett, Department of Critical Care, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; nleggett{at}student.unimelb.edu.au; A/Prof Kimberley Joy Haines; ...

Background Compared with cytotoxic chemotherapy, the efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for patients ...

For decades, most critical care patients have survived hospitalisation, supporting increased attention on the long-term ...

Background We performed an analysis of UK respiratory disease epidemiology covering 2004–2012. Findings pertaining to COPD are presented here. Methods Prevalence and incidence rates were estimated ...

Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...

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