Chest doctor in Tayside, Honorary Professor University of Dundee, Respiratory Lead Centre for Sustainable Delivery, runner, cyclist, SFV masher, house trained.
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Tom Fardon retweeted
🫁Respiratory researchers contributed to improved diagnostic guidelines for identifying and managing asthma, announced by @NICEComms.
The new guideline recommends chronic asthma should be diagnosed when people first show symptoms by using simple tests.
🔗manchesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/new…
Tom Fardon retweeted
Lots of rubbish written about the control of breathing during exercise / use of breathing patterns / nasal breathing patterns - typically citing poor / irrelevant references.
If you want a decent primer on breathing and exercise - read this:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Never in doubt, @emma_d_johnson - You’re DundeeResp forever, now.
Incredibly proud of Emma Johnson @emma_d_johnson
Winner of the 2024 BALR Early Career Investigator Award at British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2024
Congratulations Emma 👏👏👏
@Shoemelia @BTSrespiratory @BALRcommunity @UoDMedicine @dundeeuni #bronchiectasis
Karl Staples faces everyone’s nightmare scenario on stage - “Ah, this is the wrong slide set”. Battling on @BTSWinter2024
A Rob Horne shaped hole in the Asthma Guideline Implementation session at #BTSWinter2024. His dulcet tones waft over the Churchill Auditorium, still.
Tom Fardon retweeted
This year’s #BTSWinter2024 opening with a bang 💥
A revolution in #COPD - are we there…? Fabulous overview from @GuyBrusselle @suryapbhatt & @MonaBafadhel on biologics - where we are and where we might be going 🧐
Great start to a great Meeting! #respisbest 🫁 – at London, England
Tom Fardon retweeted
Good to be at #btswinter2024 today! This afternoon, I'm presenting this poster on prevalence and motivations behind purchasing inhalers online.
Tom Fardon retweeted
🎉 Huge congratulations to Professors Blair H Smith & Albena Dinkova-Kostova from @dundeeuni School of Medicine for being named among the world's most cited researchers! 🌍📚 Their work is making a global impact. 👏
NRAP data deep-dives at #BTSWinter2024. Apologies for the crap photo - but only 23% patients with COPD exacerbations (presumably) admitted to a resp ward? And less than half seen by a resp specialist post-take? Eye-opening stuff.
Tom Fardon retweeted
#BTSWinter2024
Incredible overview from @mahdi_iarc on the substantial benefits from treating tobacco dependency at the time of cancer diagnosis - simple, cheap & highly cost-effective interventions.
Must be an urgent priority for all cancer teams to implement comprehensively
Guy Brussels: "Just because a COPD patient is admitted doesn't make it a severe exacerbation" Preach, brother Guy! Phenotyping exacerbations has to be part of routine care in airways disease. *Type* of exacerbation, not frequency or 'severity' #btswinter2024
Churchill room well stocked for the first session of #btswinter2024 with Guy Brusselle exploring the Type 2 inflammation in COPD. Eosinophils can be markers, or makers in airways disease.
The calm before the storm. Or the inhalation before the cough? It’s #BTSWinterMeeting2024
Tom Fardon retweeted
Physical activity is safer and more effective than drugs for chronic pain. Here we identify the barriers and facilitators to its uptake.
@Cj_Leese @UoDMedicine @nrs_pain @LesleyColvin1 @PaulCameronPain @HLHebert16 @DundeeCPRG journals.lww.com/pain/abstra…
Tom Fardon retweeted
Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵)
1/8
Single dose CRISPR for hereditary angioedema, a genetic condition that causes unpredictable swelling attacks
This phase 2, placebo-controlled randomised trial found that CRISPR editing of kallikrein (KLKB1) reduced angioedema attacks without causing serious adverse events
Not only is this exciting for hereditary angioedema, but also for genetic conditions more widely
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Tom Fardon retweeted
Two years ago, we demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic likely began at the Huanan Market via zoonosis resulting from the wildlife trade.
Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves.
Some answers, out today in @CellCellPress.
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
