The widespread use of smartphones and the internet has enabled self-monitoring and more
hybrid-care models. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated remote monitoring …

The current COVID19 pandemic has challenged the continuity of health care and research.
Healthcare providers around the world are required to deal with social distancing and …

Background Patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) require regular physician visits and
referral to specialist ILD clinics. Difficulties or delays in accessing care can limit opportunities …

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 …

Chronic respiratory diseases are among the most common non-communicable diseases
worldwide, largely due to the ubiquity of noxious environmental, occupational, and …

In 2007, the US National Institutes of Health added the Human Microbiome Project to the
National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research. The lung—traditionally thought …

We welcome the report by the SPIROMICS investigators in The Lancet Respiratory
Medicine, 1 repeating our 2010 ECLIPSE analysis2 describing exacerbations in chronic …

Comment 126 www. thelancet. com/respiratory Vol 11 February 2023 therefore be
amenable to similar treatment strategies. 1, 2 This evidence points to the existence of …

Rationale: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a deadly disease with increasingly impaired
health-related quality of life (HRQOL). eHealth technologies facilitate collection of …

Overdiagnosis in cancer screening is the detection of cancers that would not have become
clinically apparent if the person had not been screened. Diagnosis of cancer causes anxiety …