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Associate Professor Louis Irving
Clinical Director Lung Health Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne; Respiratory Physician, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Director of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Director of Clinical Training, Royal Melbourne Hospital
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Health & Medicine
Putting the brakes on lung disease
Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that can be blocked to potentially prevent the destructive inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a major worldwide killer
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Health & Medicine
New medicine for an old disease
The re-emergence of Black Lung disease among Australian coal miners is raising urgent questions on prevention, screening and treatment that need answering