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Original article

• How well do we care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? A comparison of palliative care and quality of life in COPD and lung cancer (1 December, 2000)

  J M Gore, C J Brophy, M A Greenstone
• Case-control study of severe life threatening asthma (SLTA) in adults: demographics, health care, and management of the acute attack (1 December, 2000)

  J Kolbe, W Fergusson, M Vamos, J Garrett
• Hyperventilation and asymptomatic chronic asthma (1 December, 2000)

  C A Osborne, B J O'Connor, A Lewis, V Kanabar, W N Gardner
• Association of respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis with the interleukin 8 gene region in UK families (1 December, 2000)

  J Hull, A Thomson, D Kwiatkowski
• Capsaicin induced cough in cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (1 December, 2000)

  M J Doherty, R Mister, M G Pearson, P M A Calverley
• Treatment of severe nosocomial pneumonia: a prospective randomised comparison of intravenous ciprofloxacin with imipenem/cilastatin (1 December, 2000)

  A Torres, T T Bauer, C León-Gil, F Castillo, F Alvarez-Lerma, A Martínez-Pellús, S R Leal-Noval, P Nadal, M Palomar, J Blanquer, F Ros
• A national confidential enquiry into community acquired pneumonia deaths in young adults in England and Wales (1 December, 2000)

  J C G Simpson, J T Macfarlane, J Watson, M A Woodhead
• Decreased plasma levels of nitric oxide derivatives in obstructive sleep apnoea: response to CPAP therapy (1 December, 2000)

  R Schulz, D Schmidt, A Blum, X Lopes-Ribeiro, C Lücke, K Mayer, H Olschewski, W Seeger, F Grimminger
• Clinical experience of lymphangioleiomyomatosis in the UK (1 December, 2000)

  S R Johnson, A E Tattersfield
• Transforming growth factor β₂ (TGFβ₂) produces effective pleurodesis in sheep with no systemic complications

  (1 December, 2000)

  Y C G Lee, K B Lane, R E Parker, D S Ayo, J T Rogers, R W Diters, P J Thompson, R W Light