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TL;DR: The shift toward less expensive pressure-cycled ventilators and the decrease in hospitalizations after initiating NPPV have had positive impacts on the cost-effectiveness of NPPVs in patients with chronic respiratory failure.

TL;DR: The problems associated Pulmonology decade is reviewed and the and Department of healthy individuals there is a plateau phase in Epidemiology, cut off values between normal and abnormal early adulthood in which there is little or no University of examined.

TL;DR: A new Task Force on pulmonary function testing, implemented by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), has recently started its work based on the ATS/ERS documents, with the hope that they will be accepted by other respiratory societies.

TL;DR: The first series of three workers who developed occupational asthma following exposure to airborne chloramines in indoor chlorinated swimming pools is reported, with one worker having a positive workplace challenge to nitrogen trichloride.