In 2011, a European Respiratory Society Task Force embarked on a process to determine
the position and clinical relevance of the cough hypersensitivity syndrome, a disorder …

Cough remains a serious unmet clinical problem, both as a symptom of a range of other
conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastroesophageal reflux …

Estrogen's role in allergic disease remains complex. As allergic diseases continue to
increase in prevalence and affect women disproportionately, gaining a fuller understanding …

Chronic refractory cough (CRC) is defined as a cough that persists despite guideline based
treatment. It is seen in 20-46% of patients presenting to specialist cough clinics and it has a …

Despite the best efforts of basic and applied science, the identity of the human “cough
receptor” remains elusive. The attraction of identifying a single “catch all” cough receptor is …

Background The urge-to-cough is a consciously perceived compulsion, previously
investigated in healthy volunteers inhaling irritants. We aimed to characterise the urge-to …

Background and objective Diseases associated with laryngeal dysfunction include chronic
refractory cough (CRC), paradoxical vocal fold movement (PVFM), muscle tension …

Chronic cough has been suggested to be due to three conditions, asthma, post nasal drip,
and reflux disease. A different paradigm has evolved in which cough is viewed as the …

Background Inhaled capsaicin elicits cough reproducibly in human subjects and is widely
used in the study of cough and antitussive therapies. However, the traditional end points C2 …

An ever‐increasing number of adult and pediatric disorders have been shown to be
influenced or caused by airway reflux. This has become a controversial and complicated …