Publications of Potential Interest to TSANZ Members
Cochrane Library - NZ Branch
New Zealand Branch of the Australasian Cochrane Centre presents the new Respiratory Cochrane Reviews from The Cochrane Library, Issues 7-9, 2011.
For more information, please refer to this document.
ARNOLD - Australasian Registry Network for Orphan Lung Disease
A joint project between the ALF and TSANZ - information on how to receive monthly email reminders to register patients.
Please read the attached flyer or go to www.arnold.org.au
European Respiratory Society
Report from the Global Lungs Initiative Interim Results Meeting held on 16th May 2011. Click here for the report.
American Thoracic Society, Denver, USA
Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (ASPR) - Respiratory Updates
“Investigating symptoms in lung cancer: a guide for general practitioners”
Please find above the first edition of the quarterly project newsletter issued by Monash University.
The project is designed to provide evidence based guidance for GPs to investigate symptoms of lung cancer and provide effective referral. We would welcome your comments and feedback on the project.
Respiratory and Sleep Health in Indigenous Australians
A Report by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian Sleep Association and the Australian Lung Foundation.
Respiratory illness is a major contributor to differences in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The major aims of this report are to review the burden of respiratory and sleep symptoms in Indigenous people and to scope relevant health-care outcomes and interventions in order to make recommendations to substantially improve respiratory health in the future.
- Receptors of the innate immune system help identify the nature of invading pathogens. We now show that these receptors also participate in the recognition of aeroallergens.
Winner of The Australian Lung Foundation Boehringer Ingelheim 2006 COPD Research Fellowship, Dr Simon Phipps, has submitted his final report and written an article on his findings. The aims of his project were to determine the contribution of alveolar epithelial cell TLR4 expression in the pathogenesis of emphysema and to ascertain whether LPS-induced emphysema is mediated through modulation of sphingolipids; to ascertain whether ceramide-mediated emphysema is dependent on TLR4 ligation; and to temporally profile three phenotypically similar experimental models of emphysema to identify common and early signature genes that underpin lung destruction. A copy of the article may be downloaded here.
- Accreditation of Advanced Training Sites - Adult Respiratory Medicine:
- Criteria for Accreditation of Advanced Training Sites in Adult Respiratory Medicine [PDF]
