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

Medicine is replete with preadministration safety rituals that seemed self-evident until they were formally studied. Routine ...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterised by subpleural fibrosis that progresses to involve all areas of the lung. The expression of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), a ...

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 ...

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a critical global public health challenge, and there is an urgent need to improve the diagnosis and management of post-TB lung disease (PTLD). We aimed to ...

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 ...

2 GRIAC Research Institute, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Loes E M Kistemaker, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, ...

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

1 NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT), University College London, London, UK 2 Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, London, UK Background ...

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 ...

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