European Respiratory Topic

Volume 1 Number 2

March 1995
CONTENTS

EDITORIALS

Prevalence of childhood asthma - revisited

37

Vaccination against respiratory disease

38

TOPICS

An estimate of the prevalence of asthma and wheezing among inner-city chilren

39

Prevalence of asthma and wheeze in the Highlands of Scotland

40

Effectiveness of routine self monitoring of peak flow in patients with asthma

41

Is living in a carpeted bedroom of any importance to asthmatic children?

42

Is asthma a killer?

43

Efficacy of BCG vaccination

44

Are pneumococcal vaccines effective?

45

Influenza vaccination in asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease

46

Focus on pulmonary rehabilitation

47

Effects of smoking onset and cessation on pulmonary function

49

Mortality and smoking: 40 years' observations

50-51

Nicotine replacement therapies in smoking cessation

52

Tuberculosis (TB): the new threat from an old foe - drug resistant TB

53

Tuberculosis (TB): the new threat from an old foe - guidelines on diagnosis

54

Is it possible, at the end of the 20th century, to die in a developed country from pulmonary tuberculosis

55

Transmission of tuberculosis

56

Bronchoscopic needle biopsy of mediastinal lymph-nodes in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis

57

High dose inhaled corticosteroids: are they useful in the therapy of pulmonary sarcoidosis

58

Is the addition of preoperative chemotherapy to surgery useful in the treatment of Stage III-A non-small-cell lung cancer?

59

Detection of extrathoracic metastases in potentially operable non-small-cell lung cancer

60

Determinants of progression and survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)

61

Single lung transplantation for emphysema: what are the results?

62

Presentation and management of bronchogenic cysts in the adult

63

HOW TO USE THIS ISSUE

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