1 Cardiovascular and airways response to two non‐cardioselective beta‐ adrenoceptor
blocking drugs, propranolol and pindolol (with partial agonist activity) and two cardioselective …

A case of acute renal failure is reported in a patient with severe lithium intoxication. Renal
biopsy showed damage in the proximal tubules with less marked changes in the glomeruli and …

Asthma mortality appeared to increase two-fold in the UK from the mid- 1970s to the early
1990s, but there is evidence of inaccuracy in asthma death certification and so a region-wide …

Sixteen patients with bird-fancier's lung were screened for evidence of cœliac disease by
assessing their clinical features, red-blood-cell or serum folate levels, and serum for reticulin …

To understand more fully the nature of events leading to asthmatic death, we conducted a
confidential enquiry prospectively throughout 1994–1996 among the surviving relatives and …

Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a
year, clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer. Doctors in West Cumbria health district …

… On direct questioning she had noticed recent thirst and weight-loss but initially denied
any alteration in bowel habit. Later, on persistent questioning she admitted to passing two …

To assess its value as a screen for avian antibodies, indirect immunofluorescence against
avian intestinal tissue has been to test sera from thirty-nine patients with documented bird-…

Editor—Readers of Ann J Woolcock’s editorial about our paper may have wondered at her
comments on the seasonality of deaths due to asthma1 although data on this were not …

A trial of oral carbenicillin for the treatment of Pseudomonas urinary infections in 8 patients
is reported. Pseudomonas was eradicated in 6 patients, but recurred in 1. Treatment had to …