Gavin C. Donaldson

TL;DR: The alveolar gas tensions in nine members of the Great Britain National Squad immediately following the performance of set figures and the initial underwater sequence of their free routine in a swimming-bath suggest that potentially dangerous levels of hypoxia may develop during competitive synchronized swimming and that prolonged underwent sequences should not be encouraged.

TL;DR: Higher levels of ambient NOx are associated with prolonged exacerbations of likely viral etiology, supporting toxicologic effects of air pollution that increase susceptibility to, and severity of, infection.

TL;DR: The use of PROs for the detection, quantification, and evaluation of COPD exacerbations is explored, and symptom diary cards as exacerbation detection tools and their evolution into electronic diaries used in pharmaceutical trials are examined.

TL;DR: DFA shows that daily PEF in COPD has long-term correlations which are related to exacerbation frequency, and monitoring of PEF and use of &agr; may result in smaller COPD patient sample sizes in trials.

TL;DR: The paper by Wilkinson et al, on people aged over 75, makes a useful addition to the evidence that winter mortality in Britain is now not caused primarily by deprivation and failure to heat homes.