Background Vitamin A, an essential micronutrient obtained through the diet, plays a crucial role in lung development and contributes to lung regeneration. We aimed to investigate its effect on adult ...

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Clinical Oncology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK 3 Department of Clinical Oncology Calderdale and ...

Respiratory Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, CUHNHSFT and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK ...

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Background Pleural disease affects 1 in 300 people annually; furthermore, the incidence of malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is increasing with over 40,000 cases each year in the UK alone. A ...

1 Interstitial Lung Disease Program and Autoimmune Lung Center, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA 2 Division of Psychosocial Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA 3 ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

1 Department of Medicine, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA Background The mechanisms underlying chronic obstructive ...

1 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, P O Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC - Sophia ...

Background Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are characterised by increased dyspnoea, reduced quality of life and muscle weakness. Re-exacerbation and hospital admission ...

Most physicians believe they do more good than harm, and these duties of helping and not harming the patient are rooted in the Hippocratic oath, the good Samaritan tradition, and the Order of the ...

This is an account of the life and work of Robert Koch (1843-1910), Nobel Laureate in Medicine and a founder of the science of bacteriology. In particular, Koch's researches into tuberculosis are ...