Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) encompasses a group of disorders characterised by the presence of incompletely reversible airflow obstruction with overlapping subsets of different phenotypes including chronic bronchitis, emphysema or asthma. The aim of this study was ...

Background: Current clinical guidelines for COPD indicate that health care professionals must ensure that COPD is diagnosed accurately at an early stage so that people with COPD are treated effectively. Difficulties in making the diagnosis and assessing severity using spirometry may also affect ...

Two complementary guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of allergic rhinitis are published in the August issue of the Allergy journal. These guidelines are the result of a close cooperation between scientists, primary care professionals, and patients' organisations. GA²LEN, ...

(Asthma News and Information) Heres some surprising news The most effective medicines for a cough are NOT the ones which are being marketed as cough treatments In the latest Johns Hopkins Lung Disorders Health Alert wwwjohnshopkinshealthalertscom their pulmonary specialists summarize the kiy ...

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Snakes_on_a_plane_french From time to time I muse about hiring myself out as a traveling physician extraordinaire to an elderly billionaire for an exorbitant daily rate. I mean sure, George Bush has a personal physician accompanying him everywhere he goes and the Saudi king has a fully-equipped OR on ...

More than a decade after national guidelines were issued for asthma treatment, some patients still don`t receive prescriptions for the inhalers that experts say offer the safest and most effective long-term control of the disease, a new study suggests.

We searched the NLH Respiratory Specialist Library and the TRIP and Medline databases but found no guidelines or studies supporting the theory that under-treatment of asthma leads to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Objective: To ascertain whether therapeutic equivalence exists for the treatment of paediatric community acquired pneumonia by the oral and intravenous (IV) routes. Methods: A multicentre pragmatic randomised controlled non-blinded equivalence trial was undertaken in eight paediatric centres ...

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