EDITORIAL

Lung Alerts

Call for Lung Alerts

J A Wedzicha¹, A Bhowmik², T Seemungal³

¹ Editor in Chief
² Web editor (angshub@cheerful.com)
³ Web editor (TSeemungal@aol.com)

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Thorax Editorial Office, 17 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK;
thorax@bmjgroup.com

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An opportunity to contribute to the new Lung Alert feature in Thorax.

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Keywords: Lung alerts

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In the January issue of Thorax we started a new feature called Lung Alerts with the aim of increasing the educational value of Thorax. At a time of ever increasing numbers of medical publications and a vast range of journals publishing papers of interest to practitioners in respiratory medicine, we do not have the time to scan all the general and specialist journals for papers on respiratory topics. A number of very important papers are published in general medical or scientific journals, or in specialist journals such as those on oncology, paediatrics and epidemiology. Physicians and scientists may have varying access to these publications and thus may miss important new developments in basic science or clinical medicine.

We have therefore started to publish short reviews and alerts of papers that we have selected from these journals, printing the title of the paper with a short commentary of . . . [Full text of this article]

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