The results of a new report suggest that removing asbestos from schools and hospitals within the next 10 years would save the UK economy almost £12 billion over 50 years in the reduced economic and social costs of asbestos-related diseases mesothelioma.uk.com/cost-benefit-a…

Happy New Year 2024! ..and a Happy New Job?! 🫁 Come work with us at VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute on an exciting new Medical Research Council funded project looking at mechanisms of lung inflammation to help develop new therapies for airway diseases Grateful if you can RT - Thanks! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44539/

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Did you know there is a group in the UK called the Rare Disease Collaborative Network - Familial Pneumothorax where you can get support for BHD symptoms relating to your lungs. They have opened a Glasgow branch. Find out more by visiting lght.ly/ggo5c4f Stefan Marciniak

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Pleural fluid analysis is the gold standard for pleural infection diagnosis. Current management is by antibiotic therapy, therapeutic pleural aspirations, chest drains, IPFT and surgery; the future includes targeted treatment by RAPID risk categorisation. bit.ly/49PtBEH

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS are on a serious roll! Congrats to the team for recruiting their 3rd participant to the RASPER study! Stefan Marciniak Hannah Collins Anthony Martinelli

Hear from Dr Avinash Aujayeb, who helps us break down what aligning a pleural service with the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) recommendations looks like, including information on coding and Best Practice Tariffs (BPTs). Read more: bit.ly/48CXUxk #Respiratory

No young person should ever feel alone. Today, #Here4You has launched a special broadcast featuring Roman Kemp and other famous faces. It’s warm, uplifting, supportive, and empowers young people to take charge of their mental health. Watch here: here4you.co.uk/broadcast/

European Respiratory Journal: IPCs are not superior to chest drain and pleurodesis at improving quality of life in patients with malignant pleural effusion bit.ly/478HTOc

Nellie watching Crufts 🐶#Crufts2024

Excited to kick-off our first EURECA Research Engagement Day with a keynote from Stefan Marciniak #EUReCaRED

We have 10 CPD points confirmed for the UK Pleural Society research conference in Oxford/on line 4th and 5th July. Sign up at pleura.org.uk

Join us on Monday 24 June for a special Meet the Expert event! Professor Stefan Marciniak (Stefan Marciniak) and Professor Simon Johnson will be joining to talk a bout the latest information about #BHD and pneumothorax. Register here: lght.ly/k6phecc

Another great Rare Disease Collaborative Network in Familial Pneumothorax MDT just now. Allows us to help with patients with rare diseases across the UK. Thanks ⁦Kevin Blyth 💙⁩ ⁦Allanah Barker⁩ ⁦Hannah Collins⁩ and many other colleagues. cuh.nhs.uk/our-services/r…

Introducing some of our BTS Nurse Members! BTS is proud to celebrate #InternationalNursesDay today and would like to thank all of the wonderful nurses working to protect and improve lung health. #Respiratory #LungHealth #Nurses

Large (>80%) primary spontaneous pneumoThx are as successfully managed by conservative care (ie no drainage) as smaller ones. See ERS publications sub-analysis of the PSP trial by Gerben Keijzers Michaela Donaghy Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton OAM 🌈 #YES2023 Drs Weatherall+Beasley+Ball+Simpson Alejandro

People with pleural effusion tell you they are breathless bending forward? PLEASE-3 study investigates clinical relevance of 'bendopnea': Bianca Iacopetta Bristi Roy Carolyn Peddle-McIntyre Matthew Ing Michaela Donaghy Ai Ling Tan doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1… Westmead Research UWA Alejandro

Happy #WorldPneumothoraxDay! Today, our purpose is to drive awareness amongst medical professionals and the public of #pneumothorax symptoms and BHD. Please join us today & help us spread awareness. Learn all about today in BHD Foundation's new blog: thebhdfoundation.org/blog/431-world…

New Guidelines in Focus available now on the ERS Respiratory Channel Dr Pieter Goeminne is joined by Dr Anand Sundaralingam to discuss the ‘ERS Statement on Benign Pleural Effusion’ Access now: channel.ersnet.org/channel-38-gui…