respiratory
Asthma

Age-dependent RSV asthma risk creates vaccine conundrum

The risk of asthma linked to infant RSV infection is much greater if a child acquires the infection later in infancy, NSW researchers have shown. Children who contract severe RSV disease after the age of six months are more than twice...

The risk of asthma linked to infant RSV infection is much greater if a child acquires the infection later in...

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Medical politics

Researchers spurn funding from Big Tobacco-backed “smoke free” group

Leading Australian researchers have stated they will not accept any funding or support from the tobacco industry funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. This follows similar statements from Australian and international public health institutions, including the World Health Organisation. The Foundation is...

Leading Australian researchers have stated they will not accept any funding or support from the tobacco industry funded Foundation for...
COPD

CBT effective for anxiety in COPD

A respiratory nurse-led cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention to help patients with COPD manage anxiety is both clinically and cost effective, UK research shows. Results published in ERJ Open Research showed that at three months patients with mild to very...

A respiratory nurse-led cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention to help patients with COPD manage anxiety is both clinically and cost...
Research

Spirometry safe in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm

Pulmonary function testing is safe in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA), with no evidence of acute rupture of even large aneurysms or poorer outcomes following spirometry, UK research shows. Researchers from the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, led by Respiratory...

Pulmonary function testing is safe in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA), with no evidence of acute rupture of even...