Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management
When the dust settles, will pleural plaques be linked to gravel roads?
When the dust settles, will pleural plaques be linked to gravel roads?
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Occupational health expert David McBride looks at respiratory diseases caused by occupational and environmental exposures, including a potential relationship between pleural plaques and road dust
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