Methods This paper arose from an extensive literature review undertaken in developing the
Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study, a multicentre national …

Aim. To evaluate the relationship between cannabis dependence and respiratory symptoms
and lung function in young adults, while controlling for the effects of tobacco smoking. …

… Dr Sears: I believe that what happened was that when fenoterol was launched, we used
it particularly in patients with troublesome asthma, quite unaware that we were unknowingly …

Policy-makers are considering large-scale programs aimed at self-control to improve citizens’
health and wealth and reduce crime. Experimental and economic studies suggest such …

Background: The assessment of asthma control is pivotal to the evaluation of treatment
response in individuals and in clinical trials. Previously, asthma control, severity, and …

Background The outcome of childhood asthma in adults has been described in high-risk
cohorts, but few population-based studies have reported the risk factors for persistence and …

Asthma is the most prevalent pediatric chronic disease and affects more than 300 million
people worldwide. Recent evidence in mice has identified a “critical window” early in life where …

Background Research into social inequalities in health has tended to focus on low
socioeconomic status in adulthood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that children's experience of …

89 subjects with stable asthma took part in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised,
crossover study of the effects of regular versus on-demand inhaled bronchodilator therapy. …

Background. Although asthma diagnosed by a physician is known to be related to serum
IgE levels, it is not known whether there is a relation between the level of IgE and airway …