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Have you ever wondered how your lungs work? Researchers from our Children’s Lung Health Team show you how to make a simple lung model by using common household items.

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Antisense oligonucleotides are an emerging therapeutic option to treat diseases with known genetic origin. In the age of personalised medicines, antisense oligonucleotides can sometimes be designed to target and bypass or overcome a patient's genetic mutation, in particular those lesions that compromise normal pre-mRNA processing. Antisense oligonucleotides can alter gene expression through a variety of mechanisms as determined by the chemistry and antisense oligomer design.

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This Research Note has explored the strengths, risks and potential complexity of adaptive trials

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The upper airway may play a role in the respiratory symptoms experienced by some very preterm children and should be considered by clinicians

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Inert gas washout tests, performed using the single- or multiple-breath washout technique, were first described over 60 years ago.

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Structural changes identified on CT scans in primary ciliary dyskinesia are not identical to those previously described in cystic fibrosis patients

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Playing a wind or brass (W/B) instrument is considered a strenuous activity for the respiratory system.

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Highlight of some of the most interesting abstracts presented at the 2016 ERS International Congress, which was held in London

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Childhood asthma begins as wheeze (a whistling sound produced by the airways during breathing) during pre­school age.

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Current NICE 2015 guidelines for bronchiolitis state that the use of HFNC is becoming widespread without demonstration of additional efficacy.