A Queensland doctor has raised the alarm about silicosis affecting stonemasons, saying the crisis threatens to overwhelm Australia’s lung transplant system.

At least 98 Queenslanders who work with

Patients with severe asthma account for more than 60% of the costs associated with asthma, which are primarily for medications.

According to a cross sectional web based survey of over 2500 adult

Antibiotic therapy in patients with severe asthma flares has been shown to provide no additional benefit, according to the results of a large retrospective US analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Scientists have identified five different types of insomnia, a finding they say paves the way for more targeted treatments and therapies for those who experience the condition.

The subtypes are not

His heartburn was way out of control, even on maximum doses of pantoprazole and ranitidine. It burned all the way up behind his breastbone and he could feel the choking quality of the sticky acidity

A good night’s sleep might be as important as exercise and diet when it comes to reducing patients’ cardiovascular disease risk, according to a landmark Spanish study.

After accounting for other risk

Daily aspirin use appears to reduce the risk of COPD exacerbations, as well as having other beneficial effects, according to an observational US study.

There is some evidence that aspirin use may

A GP who issued repeat benzodiazepine scripts over the phone to a woman with hypoxia has been declared safe to practise, after a coroner found she had learned from the death of the “difficult” patient

A 36-year-old man was admitted to an ICU in San Francisco with acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure.

Over the next week, he had episodes of haemoptysis with increasing respiratory distress.

Asthma and smoking seem unlikely bedfellows — in fact, an outright oxymoron by modern standards.

But a puff on an ‘asthma cigarette’ would have been just what the Victorian-era doctor ordered for