Update Respiratory Medicine Vol 12 Issue 4 January 2026

Long-term exposure to air pollution worsens the severity of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), according to research...

Despite significant progress in recent years, tobacco use remains a major public health challenge in Ireland....

The world’s children lose 8.45 million days of healthy life each year globally due to second-hand...

A randomised controlled trial presented at the ERS Congress 2025 suggests robotic-assisted bronchoscopy (RAB) combined with...

Pleural effusion sediment is commonly used to detect oncogenic mutations in lung carcinoma, but its sensitivity...

Remote monitoring increases symptom control and reduces hospitalisations in children with asthma, according to research presented...

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in September suggests...

Late last year, the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) released its 2026 Global...

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) defines COPD as a “heterogenous lung condition...

Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases affecting people around the world at all...

Pneumonia. At the end of 2025, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) published new guidance on the...