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- After twenty years on the rise, childhood asthma seems now to be declining
- Welding on special stainless steels causes occupational asthma (authors from Finland)
- Small airways clearance decreases with age (authors from Sweden)
- Patients dislike hospital admission more than worsening symptoms in exacerbations of COPD (authors from UK)
- Dyspnoea in elderly people without medical history (authors from France)
- Pub smoking ban brings all-round benefits
- The products we use for housework and home improvements are not risk-free
- The ADAM33 gene may play a key role in embryonic airway formation
- Silicosis discovered for the first time in denim sandblasters
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension: New drugs will soon be on the way
- A British study reveals for the first time that almost 10% of young children snore regularly
- Asbestos may cause a further 1,000 deaths every year in the USA through asbestosis
- Air pollution and lung disease Traffic fumes even more dangerous than previously thought
By Dr Hetty van Dijk, IPCRG web editor
July 2005
- Netherlands: TB infection contracted by almost one in six child contacts of immigrants with tuberculosis
- Nicotinic agonists: a new therapeutic approach of asthma
- Lung problems for pulp mill workers exposed to irritant gases
- Benefits from asthma drugs - what patients really want
- Nerve growth factor induces hyperresponsiveness of the human bronchus
Research has identified that much asthma remains uncontrolled in spite of maximal therapy and guideline adherence. Factors responsible for this require elucidation.
More The World Congress Leadership Summit on Advances in Treating and Managing the Cost of Respiratory Disease, Las Vegas, Nevada, 27-28 June 2005
The International Primary Care Respiratory Group and World Congress are pleased to invite you to join us for the World Congress Leadership Summit on Advances in Treating and Managing the Cost of Respiratory Disease, June 27-28, 2005, at the Renaissance Hotel, Las Vegas. This groundbreaking executive summit presents the nation's best practices and thought leaders in exploring the costs of respiratory health to the Nation and the workplace.
More Excerpts from January 2005 European Respiratory Journal
By Dr Hetty van Dijk, IPCRG web editor
January 2005
- Is the booming market in flat screens threatening the health of the workers who make them?
- Cigarette smoke: from mouse to man
- Pinewood dust induced pulmonary inflammation
- Working with polypropylene microfibres may cause serious health problems
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