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Chronic respiratory diseases and lung cancer research: a perspective from the European Union
Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) are chronic diseases of the airways and other structures of the lungs. Major CRDs are asthma and respiratory allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), occupational lung diseases, sleep apnoea syndrome and pulmonary hypertension. Globally, they affect 1 billion people and account for 7% of all deaths worldwide (4.2 million deaths) [1]. Lung cancer adds to this number another 1.4 million deaths annually (2.4%) [2]. Of the communicable lung diseases, tuberculosis is by far the most important. In 2012, 1.3 million people were killed by tuberculosis and 8.6 million new cases re...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 31, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Navarro-Torne, A., Vidal, M., Trzaska, D. K., Passante, L., Crisafulli, A., Laang, H., van de Loo, J.-W., Berkouk, K., Draghia-Akli, R. Tags: Lung cancer Original Articles: European Lung Corner Source Type: research

Emerging allergies to cannabis
We report 6 clinical cases of immediate hypersensitivity related to CS.Subjects were young adults (27-41 years; 2M/4F) current or former C smokers. Symptoms were:plant food allergies due to cross-reactive lipid transfer proteins (LTP) (n= 5) (Metz-Favre C et al. Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Dec;43(6):193-5), rhinitis/asthma (n= 3), contact urticaria/eczema (n=3) and effort anaphylaxis (n=1). All had positive CS sIgE (median 8.05 (4.35-21.9) kU/L) (Ebo D et al. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2013;161:220-8). In 1 case, SPT with crude CS was made and strongly positive. All subjects were atopic.Up to now, C consumption has b...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 23, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Doyen, V., Debaugnies, F., Ledent, C., Corazza, F., Michel, O., Mairesse, M. Tags: 5.3 Allergy and Immunology Source Type: research