Asthma is the most common chronic airway disease worldwide, imposing substantial clinical, societal, and economic burden.

Accurate patient monitoring is not an optional extra in general practice. It is a fundamental part of the clinical encounter, ...

This toolkit is designed to help healthcare professionals better understand respiratory oscillometry, also referred to as forced oscillation technique (FOT). Impulse oscillometry (IOS) is a ...

2 Medical Statistics, Research and Development, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 3 Harefield Respiratory Research Group, Guy’s and St ...

Study Rundown: Spirometry is widely used for diagnosing asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, its interpretation is highly variable in primary care, leading to ...

You may have heard the parable of the empty boat. It goes something like this: A man traveling down a river is bumped by a boat. He becomes incensed until he realizes that no one is stewarding the ...

Keeping tabs on blood sugar throughout the day used to be the exclusive domain of people with diabetes. But in 2026, anyone can buy a user-friendly wearable device that provides minute-by-minute ...

Wearable glucose monitors offer real‑time data, but for healthy people no guidelines exist to interpret the numbers by Liao Yue, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Liao Yue, University of Texas at Arlington (THE CONVERSATION) Keeping tabs on blood ...