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Highlights of Thorax at the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting
In this edition of the journal, we publish four papers that are being presented at a special session of the BTS winter meeting, highlighting the excellence of the work published in Thorax. These papers cover tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial lung disease, with both basic science and clinical research represented. In this month's airwaves we give you a taster of this session and much, much more…
“…youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies…”
So wrote John Keats in 1819, describing the effects of tuberculosis. He himself died of TB a year later, in Rome, at the age of only 25. His words come from the era before anti tuberculous chemotherapy, when it is estimated that TB was responsible for 20% of all deaths in London. The era of effective TB treatment began in 1948, with the report in our sister journal (the BMJ) of the first randomised controlled trial of TB treatment – MRC trial of streptomycin. In the 21st century, for many individuals, there is …
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