Occupational and environmental medicine

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Editorials
Respiratory disability: what is it, how can we measure it, what causes it and is it important?

Philip Harber
Thorax 2009; 64: 280-282. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials
Pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion: talc, toxicity and where next?

Helen E Davies, Y C Gary Lee, and Robert J O Davies
Thorax 2008; 63: 572-574. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials
Standards of care for occupational asthma

Susan M Tarlo
Thorax 2008; 63: 190-192. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Asthma
Standards of care for occupational asthma

D Fishwick, C M Barber, L M Bradshaw, J Harris-Roberts, M Francis, S Naylor, J Ayres, P S Burge, J M Corne, P Cullinan, T L Frank, D Hendrick, J Hoyle, M Jaakkola, A Newman-Taylor, P Nicholson, R Niven, A Pickering, R Rawbone, C Stenton, C J Warburton, A D Curran, and British Thoracic Society Standards of Care Subcommittee Guidelines on Occupational Asthma
Thorax 2008 63: 240 -250; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2007.083444 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ web only appendices ]  

Case report
Syndrome of pleural and retrosternal "bridging" fibrosis and retroperitoneal fibrosis in patients with asbestos exposure

V Cottin, P-Y Brillet, F Combarnous, F Duperron, H Nunes, and J-F Cordier
Thorax 2008; 63: 177-179. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials
Long-term exposures to air pollution

Jon G Ayres
Thorax 2007; 62: 1037-1038. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lung alerts
Asbestos and man-made vitreous fibres may not currently contribute to the burden of lung cancer

S Mandal
Thorax 2007; 62: 926. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Exhaled markers
Increased alveolar nitric oxide concentration and high levels of leukotriene B₄ and 8-isoprostane in exhaled breath condensate in patients with asbestosis

Hannele Lehtonen, Panu Oksa, Lauri Lehtimäki, Anna Sepponen, Riina Nieminen, Hannu Kankaanranta, Seppo Saarelainen, Ritva Järvenpää, Jukka Uitti, and Eeva Moilanen
Thorax 2007 62: 602 -607; published online before print as 10.1136/thx.2006.067868 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials
High-grade lesion: what does it tell us?

E S Edell
Thorax 2007; 62: 2-3. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials
Occupational asthma

M Abramson and M R Sim
Thorax 2006; 61: 741-742. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]