Eosinophilic Airway Inflammation in Asthma and COPD
Asthma and COPD are prevalent chronic inflammatory airway diseases that are responsible for significant burden...
10 January, 2019
Medical Newsletter
Obstructive sleep apnoea as a cause of metabolic dysfunction and type 2 Diabetes
Insomnia and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are more prevalent in patients with type 2 diabetes...
27 November, 2018
Craniofacial Phenotyping in Chinese and Caucasian Patients With Sleep Apnea: Influence of Ethnicity and Sex
In clinical practice, it is not always a clinical history of symptomatic OSA that provides...
27 November, 2018
Asthma associated with boy’s childhood fractures
The largest study of its type in the world has confirmed that asthma is associated...
27 November, 2018
Is near enough good enough? How reliable is your sleep study data and analysis?
Is every sleep study the same? Are results from home sleep studies as accurate as...
27 November, 2018
Sleep DownUnder 2018
Dr Andrew Scott and the team from The Wesley Hospital Sleep Disorders unit recently attended...
26 October, 2018
MBS changes to Respiratory Function Tests
Spirometry is the best standardized, most reproducible and most objective measurement of airflow limitation required...
26 October, 2018
STOP-BANG & The Epworth Sleepiness Scale
For Referrals containing these questionnaires, follow this link: http://thoracicandsleep.com.au/referrals-online-referral/ STOP-BANG The STOP-BANG screening tool has become a well-known...
26 October, 2018
Changes to Medicare item numbers for Thoracic and Sleep Medicine
As of 1st November 2018, MBS items for Thoracic medicine (sleep studies and Respiratory function...
26 October, 2018
Sleep and Mental Health – Part 3
A systematic review of the nature and correlates of sleep disturbance in early psychosis A systematic...
21 September, 2018