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29/08/2007 Smokers to face picture warnings
Images highlighting the dangers of smoking will be printed on all tobacco products sold in the UK by the end of 2009, under regulations being set out.
More...23/08/2007 Asthma UK research gives hope to young children with asthma
Asthma UK has announced funding for an innovative research project which will investigate how asthma affects the growing airways of babies and toddlers who experience wheeze and go on to develop irreversible damage to their lungs in adulthood.
More...23/08/2007 Study reveals why common pneumonia is so deadly
A common cause of pneumonia can kill by causing bleeding in the lungs, researchers said on Thursday in a finding that may explain why antibiotics fail to save many patients.
15/08/2007 High pollution linked to poor lung function growth in children in Mexico City
Children who are chronically exposed to higher levels of air pollution show marked deficiencies in lung growth and function, and not just short-term breathing problems, according to researchers in Mexico.
More...09/08/2007 World's largest respiratory health study launches next phase
The Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study (TAHS), the world's largest and longest running respiratory health research study, is launching a new research phase focusing on the 21,000 brothers and sisters of the original sample.
06/08/2007 Defective gene link to lung cancer
Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that makes lung cancer more aggressive and increases the likelihood of it spreading.
04/08/2007 Legionnaires' spreading across UK
Legionnaires' disease, the lethal bacterial lung infection that kills more than one in 10 of those that it infects, is spreading rapidly across Britain.
03/08/2007 Urals pneumonia outbreak continues, 175 people now hospitalized
A total of 175 people are now hospitalized in a Urals region following a pneumonia outbreak believed to have been caused by contamination in the hot water supply, local authorities said.
More...02/08/2007 Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator William R. Jacobs and colleagues have produced a genetically altered strain of tuberculosis (TB) that elicits a stronger immune response than the current vaccine, bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG).
More...01/08/2007 Sex differences found in COPD
In the first study to directly compare men and women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, and severe emphysema, researchers have found that there are marked differences between the sexes.
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