TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - i LP - i DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202596 VL - 67 IS - 10 AU - Andrew Bush AU - Ian Pavord Y1 - 2012/10/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/67/10/i.abstract N2 - Not because it is anything other than a very minor player in the men of death compared with that great global scourge, TB, but because CF is following TB into the epicentre of evidence based medicine. This CF themed issue of Thorax, coinciding with the US Cystic Fibrosis Foundation annual meeting, celebrates the achievements of the CF community in general, and the Foundation in particular, in driving through a series of focussed randomised controlled trials taking medications forward from the ‘wouldn't it be good if’ stage to FDA licensing. These are summarised in the review by Rowe et al (see page 882) and visually on the front cover of the journal. The review summarises the few failures as well as the many triumphs, and highlights lessons learned by the Foundation. We include a further trial, comparing two different, relatively short … ER -