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Playing wind instruments can increase risk of lung disease

Playing wind instruments can increase risk of lung disease

Playing wind instruments can increase risk of lung diseaseLove to play wind instruments like trumpets, trombones, saxophones or bagpipes?Be careful, you may be at an increased risk of developing a deadly inflammatory lung disease dubbed as 'bagpipe lung', warns a study.The warning comes after a 61-year-old British man died of the chronic inflammatory lung condition called hypersensitivity pneumonitis -- thought to have been caused by regularly breathing in mould and fungi lurking inside the moist interior of a set of bagpipes.The man had a dry cough and progressive breathlessness for seven years, despite treatment with immunosuppressant drugs.


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Brexit casts doubt over Uganda development project on lung disease – EurActiv.com

Brexit casts doubt over Uganda development project on lung disease – EurActiv.com

DISCLAIMER: All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EurActiv.com PLC.The UK's vote to leave the European Union has come at a crucial moment in the development of an international medical project that throws into sharp relief the state of flux Brexit has cast over collaborative research, says Jack Barton.Jack Barton is a journalist with a background in international development and human rights law research.The Fresh Air project, a collaboration between medical research centres across Europe, is set to roll out in rural communities across the world after five years of trials in Uganda enabled researchers to secure €3 million of funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 programme late last year.