A 40-year-old woman comes to the family practice clinic for a routine annual visit. She reports a 6-month history of progressively severe episodic shortness of breath, cough, wheeze and chest ...

In the next in our series on complex asthma presentations, consultant in respiratory medicine Dr Jennifer Hoyle explains how GPs can help diagnose occupational asthma and provide ongoing care and ...

Asthma is the most common occupational lung disease in industrialized countries (Venables and Chan-Yeung, 1997), and it has been estimated that 5–20% of all adult asthma cases have an occupational ...