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    • Professor Alastair Stewart

    Co-Director, Lung Health Research Centre; Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    Breathing easy: Treating steroid resistant asthmatics

    Steroid resistance in the lungs is a critical problem for severe asthmatics, but researchers have tracked down the molecular cause and a new inhaled treatment is on the way

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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

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    Health & Medicine

    Putting cells through their paces

    An obstacle course for human lung cells could be the answer for better testing the effectiveness of potential new drugs

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