The health benefits of taxing tobacco
Cancer of all types is a growing cause of disease in low and middle-income countries and smoking tobacco is a…
Charity
My experience of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)
I hate to be bored. And always want to do new things and make new things happen. So I’ve always…
Coming up for air
I would like to thank Public Health England and the British Lung Foundation, in helping to raise awareness about the symptoms…
Don’t ignore bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease which affects one in 1000 adults causing permanent enlargement of the airways which leads…
Listen to your Lungs
We all feel breathless sometimes but we also know when our breathlessness is not normal. It may be the first…
Lung conditions are serious too
Every five minutes in the UK, one person dies from lung disease, a statistic that underlines the massive impact of…
Your risk of COPD
As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, we look at COPD. COPD, which…