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Editorials

  • Moulds and asthma: time for indoor climate change?

    • Ashley Woodcock
    Thorax 2007;62:9 745-746 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.079699

  • Maternal diet vs lack of exposure to sunlight as the cause of the epidemic of asthma, allergies and other autoimmune diseases

    • Scott T Weiss,
    • Augusto A Litonjua
    Thorax 2007;62:9 746-748 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.079707

  • Air pollution, human health, climate change and you

    • George Thurston
    Thorax 2007;62:9 748-749 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.079228

Airwaves

  • Airwaves

    • Wisia Wedzicha
    Thorax 2007;62:9 e745

Asthma

  • Airway hyperresponsiveness and bronchial mucosal inflammation in T cell peptide-induced asthmatic reactions in atopic subjects

    • F Runa Ali,
    • A Barry Kay,
    • Mark Larché
    Thorax 2007;62:9 750-757 Published Online First: 27 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072041

  • Worldwide trends in the prevalence of asthma symptoms: phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)

    • Neil Pearce,
    • Nadia Aït-Khaled,
    • Richard Beasley,
    • Javier Mallol,
    • Ulrich Keil,
    • Ed Mitchell,
    • Colin Robertson
    Thorax 2007;62:9 758-766 Published Online First: 15 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.070169

  • Effects on patients with asthma of eradicating visible indoor mould: a randomised controlled trial

    • M L Burr,
    • I P Matthews,
    • R A Arthur,
    • H L Watson,
    • C J Gregory,
    • F D J Dunstan,
    • S R Palmer
    Thorax 2007;62:9 767-772 Published Online First: 27 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.070847

  • Maternal food consumption during pregnancy and asthma, respiratory and atopic symptoms in 5-year-old children

    • S M Willers,
    • G Devereux,
    • L C A Craig,
    • G McNeill,
    • A H Wijga,
    • W Abou El-Magd,
    • S W Turner,
    • P J Helms,
    • A Seaton
    Thorax 2007;62:9 773-779 Published Online First: 27 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.074187

Miscellanea

  • What factors are predictive of survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer treated with gefitinib?

    • Kirsten Archer
    Thorax 2007;62:9 757

  • Severe infantile lower respiratory tract illness may be characterised by a reduced, rather than increased, immune response

    • J Carter
    Thorax 2007;62:9 779

  • Clinical assessments of high frequency oscillatory ventilation

    • Thomas Stern
    Thorax 2007;62:9 813

  • Emergence of influenza B viruses with reduced sensitivity to neuraminidase inhibitors

    • Helen Stone
    Thorax 2007;62:9 819

  • Invariant natural killer T cells in asthma and COPD: back to square one!

    • S A Nachman
    Thorax 2007;62:9 829

  • Strategies for reducing treatment in mild persistent asthma

    • Andrew Medford
    Thorax 2007;62:9 833

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Temporal relationship between air pollutants and hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hong Kong

    • Fanny W S Ko,
    • Wilson Tam,
    • Tze Wai Wong,
    • Doris P S Chan,
    • Alvin H Tung,
    • Christopher K W Lai,
    • David S C Hui
    Thorax 2007;62:9 780-785 Published Online First: 20 February 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.076166

  • Prospective study of dietary patterns and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among US men

    • Raphaëlle Varraso,
    • Teresa T Fung,
    • Frank B Hu,
    • Walter Willett,
    • Carlos A Camargo
    Thorax 2007;62:9 786-791 Published Online First: 15 May 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.074534

Respiratory research

  • Feasible and simple exclusion criteria for pulmonary reference populations

    • Ane Johannessen,
    • Ernst R Omenaas,
    • Geir Egil Eide,
    • Per S Bakke,
    • Amund Gulsvik
    Thorax 2007;62:9 792-798 Published Online First: 27 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.071480

Sleep-disordered breathing

  • Influence of wakefulness on pharyngeal airway muscle activity

    • Yu-Lun Lo,
    • Amy S Jordan,
    • Atul Malhotra,
    • Andrew Wellman,
    • Raphael A Heinzer,
    • Matthias Eikermann,
    • Karen Schory,
    • Louise Dover,
    • David P White
    Thorax 2007;62:9 799-805 Published Online First: 27 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.072488

Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency

  • Determinants of airflow obstruction in severe alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency

    • Dawn L DeMeo,
    • Robert A Sandhaus,
    • Alan F Barker,
    • Mark L Brantly,
    • Edward Eden,
    • N Gerard McElvaney,
    • Stephen Rennard,
    • Esteban Burchard,
    • James M Stocks,
    • James K Stoller,
    • Charlie Strange,
    • Gerard M Turino,
    • Edward J Campbell,
    • Edwin K Silverman
    Thorax 2007;62:9 806-813 Published Online First: 27 March 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.075846

Paediatric lung disease

  • Assessment of bronchodilator responsiveness in preschool children using forced oscillations

    • Cindy Thamrin,
    • Catherine L Gangell,
    • Kanokporn Udomittipong,
    • Merci M H Kusel,
    • Hilary Patterson,
    • Takayoshi Fukushima,
    • André Schultz,
    • Graham L Hall,
    • Stephen M Stick,
    • Peter D Sly
    Thorax 2007;62:9 814-819 Published Online First: 5 April 2007 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.071290

Review series

  • Challenges in pulmonary fibrosis · 3: Cystic lung disease

    • Gregory P Cosgrove,
    • Stephen K Frankel,
    • Kevin K Brown
    Thorax 2007;62:9 820-829 doi:10.1136/thx.2004.031013

Case Report

  • Reduction of persistent air leak with endoscopic valve implants

    • Tudor P Toma,
    • Onn Min Kon,
    • William Oldfield,
    • Reina Sanefuji,
    • Mark Griffiths,
    • Frank Wells,
    • Siva Sivasothy,
    • Michael Dusmet,
    • Duncan M Geddes,
    • Michael I Polkey
    Thorax 2007;62:9 830-833 doi:10.1136/thx.2005.044537

Letters

  • Effect of azithromycin on primary bronchial epithelial cells derived from stable lung allografts

    • Desmond M Murphy,
    • Ian A Forrest,
    • Chris Ward,
    • Paul A Corris,
    • Gail E Johnson,
    • Debbie Jones,
    • Andrew J Fisher,
    • Jim J Egan,
    • Timothy E Cawston,
    • James L Lordan
    Thorax 2007;62:9 834 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.077818

  • Critical care as part of respiratory training in the UK

    • B C Creagh-Brown,
    • A McD Johnston,
    • D Pandit,
    • R J Parker,
    • A C Davidson
    Thorax 2007;62:9 834-835 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.074765

  • Breathing techniques in the management of asthma

    • Johannes C van der Wouden,
    • Arianne P Verhagen
    Thorax 2007;62:9 835

  • NICE guidance for screening for malnutrition: implications for lung cancer services

    • Alpna Chauhan,
    • Vanessa Siddall,
    • Andrew Wilcock,
    • Sugamya Mallawathantri,
    • David R Baldwin,
    • Ian D Johnston
    Thorax 2007;62:9 835 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.075051

Images in Thorax

  • Massive pulmonary arteriovenous malformation presenting with tamponading haemothorax

    • A A Khan,
    • I Hunt,
    • K Hamdane,
    • J Tambiah,
    • R P Deshpande,
    • J F Reidy
    Thorax 2007;62:9 836 doi:10.1136/thx.2006.071852

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