Several countries have applied exemptions of respiratory patients on the compulsory use of face masks indoors and outdoors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It must be strongly stated that such exemption is not evidence-based, and it may carry increased risk of personal infection to the estimated 544.9 million people worldwide suffering a chronic respiratory disease…
This protocol describes the process of developing a performance-based toolkit to assess the key treatable traits of functioning in hospitalised patients with ECOPD in order…
Smoking cessation at lung cancer screening is viable and an excellent opportunity https://bit.ly/3TC0HAf
The ongoing French RAMSES cohort includes more than 2000 severe asthma patients, with differences in terms of phenotype and asthma care trajectories between secondary and…
This book is now available for pre-order. All pre-orders will be dispatched when the book is published in June 2024. Edited by Alexandra M. Nanzer, Peter…
Our growing understanding of how the epithelium and epithelial cytokines orchestrate airway remodelling in severe asthma is enabling the development of new therapies that may…
“Digital transformation is already happening. It’s not a question of if, but how.” The restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of digital healthcare…
The FIS assay generally indicates responsiveness to CFTR modulators, but it cannot discriminate between high and low responders within the F508del homozygous subjects. Higher FIS…
As part of the April issue, the European Respiratory Journal presents the latest in its series of podcasts. Chief Editor James Chalmers interviews Ritesh Agarwal…
Increased exposure to tree canopy around the place of residence at birth prevented the risk of childhood asthma development, but this protective effect can be…
Uptake of stop smoking support co-located within a lung cancer screening programme was high across a range of participant demographics and quit rates were in…
