Inflammometry: the current state of play

Inflammometry: the current state of play.

It is now 20 years since the late Freddy Hargreave and colleagues developed a valid, safe and feasible technique to assess airway inflammation using induced sputum. At around the same time Kjell Alving and colleagues reported that the concentration of exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) is raised in patients with asthma. There has since been huge research interest in these techniques over the last 20 y...

Report on the current state of play

Working Memory and Consciousness: The Current State of Play

Working memory (WM), an important posit in cognitive science, allows one to temporarily store and manipulate information in the service of ongoing tasks. WM has been traditionally classified as an explicit memory system-that is, as operating on and maintaining only consciously perceived information. Recently, however, several studies have questioned this assumption, purporting to provide eviden...

Electronic discharge summaries: the current state of play.

The exchange of health information between acute care providers (e.g. hospitals) and primary care providers (e.g. general practitioners) has traditionally been via hard copy discharge summaries. In recent years the advent of sophisticated information and communication technology has fuelled developments in electronic discharge referral systems (eDRS), which are credited with enabling more timel...

Pertussis control in Australia--the current state of play.