Respiratory Medicine aims to be the international forum for new information of relevance to the physician working in the field of respiratory disease. It publishes high quality, original, papers on the physiology, pathology, immunology, genetics and epidemiology of respiratory disease and therapeutic interventions. Editorials and Topical Reviews geared towards both higher training and continuous medical education courses are a feature of the journal. Respiratory Medicine is abstracted/indexed by: Current Contents/Life Sciences/Clinical Practice, Index Medicus, Excerpta Medica Science Citation Index and Current Awareness in Biological Sciences.