Background Air pollution has been associated with impaired health, including reduced lung
function in adults. Moving to cleaner areas has been shown to attenuate adverse effects of …

Tumour neoantigens arising from cancer-specific mutations generate a molecular fingerprint
that has a definite specificity for cancer. Although this fingerprint perfectly discriminates …

Study objective: To assess the value of chest ultrasonography vs clinical examination for
planning of diagnostic pleurocentesis (DPC). Design: Prospective comparative study …

Background: Bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) is a common feature of asthma.
However, BHR is also present in asymptomatic individuals and its clinical and prognostic …

Of patients awaiting lung transplantation, the death rates are highest in those with idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), suggesting that many IPF patients are referred late for …

Background Inhaled corticosteroids are currently the cornerstone of asthma treatment. Some
studies of high-dose fluticasone propionate in patients with no or mild asthma have …

The host microbiome is polymorphic, compartmentalized, and composed of distinctive tissue
microbiomes. While research in the field of cancer immunotherapy has provided an …

Rationale: Reductions in mortality following improvements in air quality were documented
by several studies, and our group found, in an earlier analysis, that decreasing particulate …

Introduction: In cases of empyema, some form of intervention, either chest tube drainage,
thoracoscopy, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), or thoracotomy, with or without …

Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disorder, characterized by
chronic microbial lung infections due to abnormally viscous mucus secretions within …