The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is urging global policymakers to support and adopt tobacco policies that are health driven and science backed. The statement comes one month before the Tenth Session of the Conference of Parties (COP10) on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Taking place in Panama on 20–25 November, […]
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Respiratory disease in early childhood linked to higher risk of death in adulthood: Contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood is associated with a higher risk of dying from respiratory disease as an adult, according to new research. A study, led by researchers from Imperial College London and published in The Lancet, has […]
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The perennial outrage over emergency winter pressure in NHS hospitals is now subsiding. As usual, we have seen the blame game and finger-wagging headlines about the failure to prepare. Emergency cash injections ensue, which of course is just fire-fighting money, while recommendations and solutions seem to be ignored. A year later we do it all […]
Lung disease affects millions of people in the UK every year, but it doesn’t just cost individuals and the families in terms of loss of health and quality of life. Respiratory health, which lags behind other health issues in terms of research, funding and patient outcomes, is also taking a huge financial toll on our health service, businesses, […]
Men and women of the future will be feeling the effects of age-related health problems later in life, according to the Office for National Statistics. Women of the future, on average, will have 64 years to enjoy unfettered good health, although men will have a little less time with the ‘best of health’ coming to an end […]