Table of contents

Asthma

• Innate immune activation in neutrophilic asthma and bronchiectasis (14 July, 2006)

  Jodie L Simpson, Terry V Grissell, Jeroen Douwes, Rodney J Scott, Michael J Boyle, Peter G Gibson
• External validity of randomised controlled trials in asthma: to whom do the results of the trials apply? (14 November, 2006)

  Justin Travers, Suzanne Marsh, Mathew Williams, Mark Weatherall, Brent Caldwell, Philippa Shirtcliffe, Sarah Aldington, Richard Beasley
• Genome-wide linkage analysis of pulmonary function in families of children with asthma in Costa Rica (10 November, 2006)

  Craig P Hersh, Manuel E Soto-Quirós, Lydiana Avila, Stephen L Lake, Catherine Liang, Eduardo Fournier, Mitzi Spesny, Jody S Sylvia, Ross Lazarus, Thomas Hudson, Andrei Verner, Barbara J Klanderman, Nelson B Freimer, Edwin K Silverman, Juan C Celedón
• Asthma is associated with preterm birth but not with small for gestational age status among a population-based cohort of Medicaid-enrolled children <10 years of age (13 October, 2006)

  Bradford D Gessner, Marc-Andre R Chimonas