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Research Article

• Asthma: epidemics and epidemiology. (1 August, 1989)

  D J Hendrick
• Increase in hospital admissions for childhood asthma: trends in referral, severity, and readmissions from 1970 to 1985 in a health region of the United Kingdom. (1 August, 1989)

  H R Anderson
• Recurrent accident and emergency department attendance for acute asthma in children. (1 August, 1989)

  S M O'Halloran, D P Heaf
• Spontaneous pneumothorax: comparison of simple drainage, talc pleurodesis, and tetracycline pleurodesis. (1 August, 1989)

  M Almind, P Lange, K Viskum
• A phase II study of oral etoposide in elderly patients with small cell lung cancer. (1 August, 1989)

  E F Smit, D N Carney, P Harford, D T Sleijfer, P E Postmus
• Physiotherapy after coronary artery surgery: are breathing exercises necessary? (1 August, 1989)

  S C Jenkins, S A Soutar, J M Loukota, L C Johnson, J Moxham
• Measurement of lung tissue mass in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. (1 August, 1989)

  D J Seddon, P D Snashall
• Lung function and bronchial reactivity in farmers. (1 August, 1989)

  M Iversen, R Dahl, E J Jensen, J Korsgaard, T Hallas
• Role of histamine release in hypertonic saline induced bronchoconstriction. (1 August, 1989)

  S P O'Hickey, N G Belcher, P J Rees, T H Lee
• Nedocromil sodium in adults with asthma dependent on inhaled corticosteroids: a double blind, placebo controlled study. (1 August, 1989)

  M F Bone, M M Kubik, N P Keaney, G D Summers, C K Connolly, P S Burge, R G Dent, G W Allan
• Disturbance in respiratory mechanics in infants with bronchiolitis. (1 August, 1989)

  J Seidenberg, I B Masters, I Hudson, A Olinsky, P D Phelan
• The immunological component of the cellular inflammatory infiltrate in bronchiectasis. (1 August, 1989)

  J R Silva, J A Jones, P J Cole, L W Poulter
• Topical nasal anaesthesia for fibreoptic bronchoscopy: patients' preference for lignocaine gel. (1 August, 1989)

  A R Webb, M A Woodhead, H R Dalton, J A Grigg, F J Millard
• Postirradiation pulmonary fibrosis complicated by aspergilloma and bronchocentric granulomatosis. (1 August, 1989)

  H Makker, K McConnochie, A R Gibbs
• Locally invasive pulmonary aspergillosis occurring in a gardener: an occupational hazard? (1 August, 1989)

  J A Zuk, D King, H D Zakhour, J C Delaney
• Use of expandable metal stents in the treatment of bronchial obstruction. (1 August, 1989)

  A K Simonds, J D Irving, S W Clarke, R Dick
• Unilateral pulmonary oedema following the removal of a giant pleural tumour. (1 August, 1989)

  D A Waller, N R Saunders
• Bacteraemia following orotracheal intubation and oesophageal balloon dilatation. (1 August, 1989)

  C P Hansen, H Westh, K E Brok, R Jensen, S Bertelsen
• Is current treatment increasing asthma mortality and morbidity? (1 August, 1989)

  I Gregg