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Thorax Podcast
The Thorax podcast offers the latest insights in respiratory medicine. Each episode features in-depth interviews with renowned authors and leading experts in the field, delving into the latest respiratory research and treatments. Thorax, an esteemed international journal from the BMJ Group and the British Thoracic Society (BTS), is dedicated to publishing research and reviews in respiratory medicine to improve clinical practice. Stay ahead in your field by tuning into our expert discussions and accessing cutting-edge content. Elevate your understanding of respiratory medicine with Thorax - thorax.bmj.com - and its podcast.
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Sunday Feb 10, 2019
Sunday Feb 10, 2019
The study discussed in this podcast introduces evidence that supports a biological explanation behind the observed asthma discordance between males and females.
Read the paper on the Thorax website: https://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2019/01/29/thoraxjnl-2018-212207
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Assisted reproduction techniques might increase asthma risk in children conceived this way, a study published by Thorax concludes.
Maria Magnus, Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, talks with Thorax podcast editor Rachel Moses about her research group findings, that you can also read for free at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-211886.
A related editorial can also be found on the journal website (thorax.bmj.com).
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
The study discussed in this podcast cautions against the widely held opinion that e-cigarettes are safe.
Listen to the conversation between the Multimedia Associate Editor of Thorax Rachael Moses and Professor David Thickett (Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, UK) and read the study 'Pro-inflammatory effects of e-cigarette vapour condensate on human alveolar' on the Thorax website: https://thorax.bmj.com/
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Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
In this podcast Jennifer Quint talks to Shyamali Dharmage and Brittany Campbell about their recent press released paper "Growing up on a farm as related to adult lung function and allergic phenotypes: An international population based study".
Monday Jul 25, 2016
Monday Jul 25, 2016
Patients exposed to air pollution after diagnosis of lung cancer have shorter survival, in particular those patients with early-stage non-small cell cancers (specially adenocarcinomas), according to a study published by Thorax and conducted by researchers from the Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California.
The first study of this kind was based on a population of over 300 thousand patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer over more than two decades.
In this podcast, Dr Jaime Hart, from the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and author of the Thorax editorial about this study, tells Dr Jennifer Quint the details of this study and its impact on how air pollution is considered by general population.
Read the original article ’Air pollution affects lung cancer survival’, which corresponding author is Dr Sandrah P Eckel, here:
http://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/22/thoraxjnl-2015-207927.full.
The editorial is available here:
http://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/20/thoraxjnl-2016-208967.full.
Tuesday Nov 17, 2015
Tuesday Nov 17, 2015
In this podcast Dr Ian Mudway talks to Dr Elizabeth Batalla-Duran about his recent paper in Plos-One entitled "Effects of air pollution and introduction of the London low emission zone on the prevalence of respiratory and allergic symptoms on the school children of East London".
Wednesday Sep 30, 2015
Wednesday Sep 30, 2015
In this podcast Dr Elizabeth Batalla-Duran talks to Dr Adam Leventhal from the University Southern California about his paper "Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Initiation of Combustible Tobacco Product Smoking in Early Adolescence" recently published in JAMA.
Tuesday Sep 29, 2015
Tuesday Sep 29, 2015
In this podcast Dr Janice Higginson talks to Dr Helena Anderson from Oslo University Hospital about her recent paper published in Rheumatology. The paper is a retrospective review of research done into rituximab's effect on the rare Antisynthetase Syndrome.
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
Thorax deputy editor Paul Cullinan talks to David Coggon, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, about pneumococcal vaccination for welders.
Read the full article: http://goo.gl/p3qN8s
Tuesday Jul 08, 2014
Tuesday Jul 08, 2014
Ian Pavord talks to Scott Weiss, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, about his review on the genomic origins of asthma, which considers several areas where environmental exposures, genomics, development and asthma occurrence overlap.
Read the full review: http://goo.gl/KctouZ