We thank Professor Seif Shaheen for his interest in our systematic review. 1 We agree that a
strength of the Tucson Children's Respiratory Study2 is paediatrician and radiological …

Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death in children younger than 5 years,
accounting for 14% of child deaths globally, and is a major barrier to achieving the …

More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, and an estimated 863 million
people currently live in urban slums. 1 Although urbanisation is usually coupled with …

The Comment by Kim Mulholland and colleagues1 about methodological challenges with
the design of antibiotic trials for community-acquired pneumonia brings up some interesting …

Severe pneumonia and neonatal sepsis kill more than 1 million children every year. 1
Recommended treatments for these disorders require parenteral antibiotics in hospital, 2 but …

Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), encompassing bacterial and viral pneumonias,
acute viral bronchiolitis, and bacterial and viral bronchitis, remain the leading cause of …

In recognition of the sixth World Pneumonia Day on November 12, 2014, we call for action to
increase universal access to interventions that prevent and treat pneumonia in children …

First, other factors, besides bronchial constriction and airway inflammation, that are related
to the anatomy and immature physiology of the respiratory system in infants likely play a role …

By noting a distinct pattern of wheeze in preschool children, paediatricians were the first to
realise that not all wheeze is caused by chronic atopic asthma. Paediatricians initially …

Over the past two decades, the USA has made improving rural health a priority. For
example, the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded access to insurance coverage and …