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Confidences de Salon

Breathe | March 2017 | Volume 13 | No 1 61 Maria R. Bonsignore is Head of the ERS Clinical Physiology, Sleep and Pulmonary Circulation Assembly, and an Associate Professor at DiBiMIS, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. She has a research interest in respiratory sleep medicine, with a focus on obstructive sleep apnoea. She is also involved in basic aspects of exercise physiology, in particul...

Lupus cerebritis after visiting a tanning salon.

A 53-year-old female was admitted to the intensive care unit for lupus cerebritis; she had a 15-year history of stable lupus. Over the prior 1 to 2 months, the patient visited a tanning salon and this triggered the exacerbation of lupus. Her initial symptoms were cutaneous in the form of an erythematous rash. Within 2 weeks she started to have headaches and was admitted for seizure and psychosi...

THE PERSIANS. LOST CIVILIZATIONS Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker, Reaktion Book, 2017, 208 pages

Confidences de Salon: Stephen Holgate

Breathe | September 2016 | Volume 12 | No 3 293 @ERSpublications ERS Science Council Chair, Stephen Holgate, gives an insight into his professional and private life http://ow.ly/ZVZA300QGWN ERS Science Council Chair, Stephen Holgate, is Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK. He undertook his medical training in London befor...

Occupational asthma in a hairdressing salon.

Occupational asthma among hairdressers has been recognised for some years and cases of work related asthma due to hair bleaches containing persulphates and hair dyes have been reported. The extent of the disease among hairdressers remains unknown. An investigation was carried out on an entire hairdressing salon, which specialised in hair bleaching and colouring and which employed 23 staff. On t...