Final day at ERS and a stark reminder of where we are... #ERS2025

Really excited to attend fantastic ILD session this morning #ERS2025. Featuring a great talk by my previous lab supervisor (delighted to still get to see my name acknowledged on screen! 🤓). Underlying message from session was remaining need for magic drug ✨✨💊that can actually stop ILD progression

Erika Kennington on a new way of testing usage and usability of products to help manage respiratory conditions. #ERS2025

If you have COPD, can you relate? #ERS2025

Interesting conversation with Merit CRO on the challenges in respiratory science: poor inhaler technique, lack of standardised data capture and data analysis. Cf oncology, the basics hold back progress. But strides being made by @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social and @atscommunity.bsky.social #ERS2025

Almost 70 years since the first widely used inhaler and correct usage hovers around 30%. We need to develop patient-centric devices if we want better patient outcomes. #ERS2025

Here at #ERS2025 scientists are sharing promising ways to end the #DiagnosisDelay including detecting conditions from your voice!

Spirometry is not enough to diagnose COPD. A found 50% of people with symptoms consistent with COPD yet normal lung function as measured by spirometry. We need to develop better tools to address the #DiagnosisDelay #ERS2025

Fascinating presentation from Prof Daiana Stolz. COPD starts decades before symptoms. We need better trackers of lung function over time. Did someone say 'lung health indicator'? Our work with @ukri.org is seeking to create this and end #DiagnosisDelay #ERS2025

Claire shared that she hadn't smoked for 35 years before her diagnosis

Brilliant to see a session start with the patient experience: imagine being unable to walk and talk at the same time. That can be life with COPD. Here for the fight to change that. #ERS2025

Great to be here with the @asthmaandlung.org.uk team. All the latest in respiratory science, allies in the battle for breath. Thanks also to the team that got us here! #ERS2025

This is what a lung with COPD looks like (right) compared to a normal lung. Fewer small branches on the lung 'tree' means it's significantly harder to breathe. #ERS2025

Huge advances in how we can identify which type of COPD someone has. The challenge is getting a diagnosis of COPD in the first place. #DiagnosisDelay #ERS2025

Factors other than smoking are bigger drivers of the global COPD burden. Urgent need to study broader factors such as air pollution. #ERS2025

UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say Royal College of Physicians also says poor air quality costs country more than £500m a week

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Zia Yusuf quits as Reform UK chair after row over new MP’s call for burqa ban Yusuf had suggested it was ‘dumb’ for Sarah Pochin to call on prime minister to introduce a ban

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Irrespective of thoughts on the ban, it was always an unusual match.

US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.

BBC News - US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say
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Top US officials appeared to message a journalist Houthi strike plans A National Security Council spokesman said in a statement the reported chat "appears to be authentic"

BBC News - Top US officials shared Yemen strike plans with journalist in group chat
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7 more days until April Fools

We’re calling for greater recognition of lung health as a research priority. Everyone deserves to breathe clean air and access life-changing treatments. Join us in pushing for change! #ResearchMatters #AsthmaAndLungUK

We fund cutting-edge research to find new treatments, improve care, and understand the impact of air pollution on lung health. But to truly make a difference, research must be considered a necessity of a modern, sustainable NHS.

1 in 5 people in the UK will develop a with a lung condition like asthma or COPD. Despite this, lung health remains underfunded compared to other diseases. Research is the key to better treatments, earlier diagnoses, and ultimately, saving lives.

Health research has the power to transform lives. At @asthmaandlung.org.uk, we see this every day in the fight against lung conditions. But progress depends on sustained investment and concrete policy interventions. 🔬✨ #HealthResearch #LungHealth

Innovation isn't accidental! The future of respiratory health depends on it. This piece from @wellcometrust.bsky.social highlights why bold, sustained funding in health research is essential. 🧵👇
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Trump pushes for plastic straws, says paper straws 'don’t work' YouTube video by ABC News

youtu.be/rEOP6hPvwYs?... Power move.

It showed the tool [Gemini] helping a cheesemonger in Wisconsin write a product description by informing him Gouda accounts for "50 to 60 percent of global cheese consumption".

How much did they offer the cheesemonger, such that he didn't raise a hand.

Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe Its Gemini tool wildly overestimated global gouda consumption in ad that was meant to show off its capabilities.

BBC News - Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe
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So funny I thought it was a joke. Had to fact check.

...and the Lung Research and Innovation Group's priorities to Fix Lung Health. Full

Fixing lung health in the UK - 10 priorities 10 priorities to fix the UK research pipeline and the nation's poor lung health

And the Lung Research and Innovation Group's priorities to Fix Lung Health www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/research-hea...

The true cost of lung conditions New analysis by Asthma + Lung UK, conducted in partnership with PwC, reveals the £188bn cost of lung conditions on the UK economy each year.

Highlighting the chronic underfunding of respiratory medicine compared to its enormous impact the UK's health... www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/research-hea...