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Unchartered territory as bushfires ignite lung health concerns

Feeling nostalgic for the years when the summer injury toll was some bad cases of sunburn and heatstroke? Those halcyon days appear to be long gone with 2019 now established as Australia’s hottest and driest year on...

Feeling nostalgic for the years when the summer injury toll was some bad cases of sunburn and heatstroke? ...

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COPD

Lung Foundation seeks help to counter Big Tobacco’s latest toxic product

Lung Foundation Australia is seeking clinician support for its advocacy campaign against Big Tobacco’s bid to market another harmful product in Australia: heat-not-burn (HnB) tobacco. Unlike e-cigarettes that use chemical liquids, HnB electronic devices contain tobacco leaf...

Lung Foundation Australia is seeking clinician support for its advocacy campaign against Big Tobacco’s bid to market another...
Bronchiectasis

Co-existent COPD and bronchiectasis common in the Top End

Co-existent COPD and bronchiectasis is a common finding in adult Aboriginal Australians living in regional and remote NT communities.  A five-year retrospective study identified 258 Aboriginal Australians living with COPD who also had a chest X-ray or...

Co-existent COPD and bronchiectasis is a common finding in adult Aboriginal Australians living in regional and remote NT...

Silver anniversary for Respirology journal 

Respirology, the official journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in its January 2020 issue. One of its former Editors-in-Chief...

Respirology, the official journal of the Asian...