Hey everyone. This is a slow week here for this columnist, but not a slow week for new releases. An unprecedented three studio releases were not screened for critics: Disaster Movie, Babylon A.D. and College. Of these three, Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel, I was holding out some amount of enthusiasm ...

Background: Little is known about the long-term outcomes of individuals with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as defined by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Methods: A population cohort of 6671 randomly selected adults without asthma was stratified ...

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: About 5–10% of patients with asthma suffer from poorly controlled disease despite corticosteroid (CS) treatment, which may indicate the presence of CS insensitivity. A study was undertaken to determine whether relative CS insensitivity is present in alveolar macrophages from patients ...

Objectives: To determine whether well trained lay people could deliver asthma self-management education with comparable outcomes to that achieved by primary care based practice nurses. Design: Randomised equivalence trial. Setting: 39 general practices in West London and North West England. ...

Background: Impaired development in utero is suggested to increase the risk of poor respiratory health in adulthood, although a consensus has not been reached. A possible explanation for discrepancies between previous studies is inconsistent controlling for potential confounding factors, particularly ...

Highly active antiretroviral therapy might increase the risk of asthma among children because of the therapy's effect on the immune system and CD4+ T cell levels, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Reuters reports.

Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), a novel interleukin-7-like cytokine, triggers dendritic cell-mediated inflammatory responses ultimately executed by T helper cells of the Th2 subtype. TSLP emerged as a central player in the development of allergic symptoms, especially in the airways, and is a prime ...

Genf (dpa) Das Landleben sch??tzt offensichtlich bereits ungeborene Kinder vor Asthma. Kinder von Frauen, die w??hrend der Schwangerschaft Kontakt zu Tieren, Getreide oder Heu...

Inhalation Sciences - Asthma / School of Health Sciences - University of Southampton / Date of entry: 28/08/08