François Maltais and Yohan Bossè discuss their investigation of five generations of a French-Canadian family with multiple recurring cases of early emphysema.

A respiratory family affair

Dr. Warren Lenney calls for global children’s charter focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of childhood asthma globally

A global approach to children's asthma

Fabien Maldonado discusses the effectiveness of pleural manometry to monitor pleural pressure during thoracentesis procedures.

The effectiveness of pleural manometry

Professor Pallav Shah discuses surgical and endoscopic interventions that reduce lung volume for emphysema.

Lung volume reduction and emphysema

Dr Raj Gupta discusses the potential of delaminid, one of the first new TB drugs to enter the market in 40 years, to offer new hope for treatment of multi drug resistant tuberculosis.

Glimmers of hope for MDR-Tuberculosis treatment

Ben Cowling discusses his work in Hong Kong investigating the effectiveness of the flu vaccine over time.

Effectiveness of flu vaccine over time

To mark World Pneumonia Day, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine talks with Stefano Aliberti about his Comment calling for international action to tackle pneumonia.

Towards an International Pneumonia Network

Anne Chang discusses bronchiectasis, a debilitating condition of the airways.

Improving the lives of patients with bronchiectasis

Simon Walsh discusses the potential for machine learning-assisted diagnosis of fibrotic lung disease.

Deep learning and fibrotic lung disease

Greet Van den Berghe discusses issues of infant nutrition and critical care.

Critical care and infant nutrition

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine publishes a range of article types in respiratory medicine and critical care. These include Original Research, Reviews, Personal Views, Comments, and News articles. Topics include but are not limited to asthma, COPD, tobacco control, critical care, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, mesothelioma, sleep medicine, and respiratory infections.

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Dr. Ganesh Raghu discusses the highly anticipated results of the WRAP-IPF trial, borne out of debate surrounding the role of GER in the pathogenesis and progression of IPF, and conflicting findings from retrospective studies of antacid therapies on survival and disease progression.

Laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery and IPF

Tillie Hackett joins The Lancet Respiratory Medicine to discuss her study assessing small airways in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The role of small airways in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Julian Forton joins The Lancet Respiratory Medicine to talk about his new study into lower airway bacterial sampling in young children with cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis

Allan Glanville joins The Lancet Respiratory Medicine to discuss the INSPIRE trial that assesses the use of the Portable Organ Care System to reduce primary graft dysfunction in bilateral lung transplantation.

Primary graft dysfunction in lung transplantation

Keertan Dheda joins The Lancet Respiratory Medicine to discuss the hottest topics in TB control and treatment.

World TB Day

Mike Thomas talks about his trial of self-taught breathing retraining as a treatment for asthma.

Breathing exercises for asthma: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: December 13, 2017

Mona Bafadhel discusses her work on using eosinophils as biomarkers in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Eosinophils in COPD: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: September 2017

Daniele de Luca discusses his Position Paper, the first to provide a consensus definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome in neonates.

Defining neonatal ARDS: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: July 4, 2017

Robert Hyzy talks to Laura Feetham about how to encourage critical care doctors to stop employing ineffective practices.

De-adoption of practices in critical care: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: March, 2017

Donald Tashkin discusses a clinical trial for the treatment of scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease, a rare but devastating condition.

Scleroderma and interstitial lung disease: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: July 25, 2016

David Price discusses a UK cohort study into the use of blood eosinophil count as a predictor of asthma exacerbations.

 

Eosinophils and asthma: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: November 2, 2015

Leonardo Fabbri discusses the role of benralizumab for treatment of asthma and COPD.

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: October 09, 2014

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