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Update in Asthma 2005
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Asthma, an enormously common illness, has been a focus of research studies, many published in the journals of the American Thoracic Society and/or American Lung Association for more than 100 yr (1). In 2005, ongoing research focused on several emerging areas, including studies on the use of biomarkers to understand the clinical phenotypes and activity of the asthma, a renewed interest in the role infections play in both acute and chronic phases of asthma, an increased appreciation of the role...
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Writing a review article for AJRCCM
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; The major pulmonary and critical care journals publish more than 5,000 articles every year. To read these would require more than 25 hours each week. Despite the surfeit of information, the average physician is starving for wisdom. The aim of scholarship is to increase understanding, not just
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Update in Asthma 2007
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; A major event in asthma was the publication of the third edition of the updated National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) ''Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma'' by the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (1). The
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Tuberculosis, Nontuberculous Lung Infection, Pleural Disorders, Pulmonary Function, Respiratory Muscles, Occupational Lung Disease, Pulmonary Infections, and Social Issues in AJRCCM in 2004
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; NONTUBERCULOUS LUNG INFECTION Lung Infections HIV infection. In the setting of HIV infection, the clinical implications of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) diagnostic criteria and the significance of an isolated positive culture for Mvcobacterium kansasii from respiratory specimens stay unknown.
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Update in Asthma 2006
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Asthma-related investigations reported in 2006 ranged from the characterization of clinical asthma and airway obstruction (1-4), to human biologic studies (5, 6) and the use of animal models to better understand pathobiologic mechanisms at a cellular and molecular level (7-19). The concept of
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Update in Asthma 2005
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Asthma, an enormously common illness, has been a focus of research studies, many published in the journals of the American Thoracic Society and/or American Lung Association for more than 100 yr (1). In 2005, ongoing research focused on several emerging areas, including studies on the use of
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The role of a journal in a scientific controversy
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Five groups of investigators have undertaken randomized trials to determine whether or not low tidal volume decreases mortality in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (1-5). Two groups reported that low tidal volumes had a beneficial effect (1, 2) and three groups reported no
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Update in Critical Care 2005
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; ISSUES OF GENERAL INTEREST Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) stopped earlier than planned because of apparent benefit, such as PROWESS (Recombinant Human Activated Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis) and the ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) Network low tidal volume study,
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Allergic Rhinitis, Asthma, Airway Biology, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in AJRCCM in 2004
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; ... have been associated with several immune-related diseases, and VDR and vitamin D itself modulate T-cell differentiation. VDR maps to chromosome 12q, near a region commonly linked to asthma. Raby and colleagues (11) evaluated VDR as part of a 12q positional ...
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Update in Critical Care 2006
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; GENERAL INTEREST Medical spending continues to outpace inflation. However, Cutler and coworkers demonstrated that the increase in medical spending over the last 40 years has been associated with a favorable overall cost-effectiveness ($19,900/extra yr of life) (1). Although the National Institutes
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Update in Environmental and Occupational Medicine 2005
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Although air pollution consists of a heterogeneous mixture of gases and particles, most recent research has been devoted to the adverse effects of particulate matter (PM). PM consists of primary particles, such as diesel soot or other combustion-derived particles, which are emitted directly into
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