Respiratory diseases—diseases of the lungs and airways such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and lung can cer—have diverse causes. While cigarette smoking is the leading cause of most major respiratory diseases, air pollutants...

Respiratory disease is an umbrella term for diseases of the lung, bronchial tubes, trachea and throat . These diseases range from mild and self-limited(coryza -or common cold) to being life-threatening,(bacterial pneumonia, or pulmonary embolism for...

CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT newGMS contract and new NICE COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) guidelines are presenting practice nurses with new ways of working to manage asthma and COPD. FRANCESCA ROBINSON outlines the opportunities, challenges, targets, asthma action plans and gives examples of innovative...

DOMENICO SPINA, CLIVE P. PAGE, WILLIAM J. METZGER, AND BRIAN J. O'CONNOR. Drugs for the Treatment of Respiratory Diseases. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 599 pp, 102 figs, 56 tbls, $160.00 (hardcover). This text represents a new volume intended to...

A U.S. man who had been quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis for nearly a year after returning from Russia was transferred Thursday to a hospital in Colorado.Robert Daniels, 27, has a multiple drug-resistant form of TB, known as MDR. He was placed in...

More than a dozen states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to lower soot levels from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, a move the state officials argue would save thousands of lives.The states argue that the Bush administration is ignoring science and its own...