 August 2008
Featuring - Lung Surgery: Complex treatment for COPD; Roy Martin Runs for His Life and Lungs; Australian COPD Task Force Update; Putting Clinical Trials into Context - The Drug Development Process; From the CEO's Desk; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network Update; LungNet Lifestyles; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; News from the World of Orphan Lung Disease; World COPD Day 2008 Update and more...
 LungNet News August 2008 615.03 Kb
May 2008
LungNet News May 2008 681.77 Kb
Featuring - Portable oxygen cylinders on CountryLink trains; News from the World of Orphan Lung Disease; The "Breath of Life" Concert roundup; From the CEO's Desk; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network Update; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; No barriers to getting out and about and enjoying life; A tribute to Brian Moran and more...
February 2008
LungNet News February 2008 1.09 Mb
Featuring - The Benefits of Exercise – “Aquarobics”; From the CEO's Desk; World COPD 2007; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Lung cancer Update; Tribute to Bernie Banton: Patient Support Around Australia and more...
November 2007
LungNet News November 2007 697.43 Kb
Featuring - Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; From the CEO's Desk; The World focuses on COPD and Lung Cancer; World Lung Cancer Awareness Month; Living with Lung Cancer; Storms and Home Oxygen Therapy Don’t Mix; A Tribute to a Fibrosis Fighter; Patient Support around Australia; Laughter for Health and more...
August 2007
LungNet News August 2007 671.93 Kb
Featuring - Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; From the CEO's Desk; Catch Your Breath on World COPD Day; What is Interval Training?; The Social Stigma of Lung Disease; Exercise in Wyndhamvale and more...
May 2007
LungNet News May 2007 562.75 Kb
Featuring - Exercise is Available in Your Area!; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Rural Australia to Breathe Easy and Walk Easy: Aged Care Expos in 2007; PIVOT Group Update: What's happening in the world of orphan lung disease?; Patient Support around Australia; Dreams Do Come True for Lung Cancer Patients; Pulmonary Rehabilitation has arrived at Inala Community Health and more...
February 2007
LungNet News February 2007 1.32 Mb
Featuring - Are you taking the right steps this year to protect yourself against serious winter respiratory infections? World COPD Day 2006 - Another successful year; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Patient Support around Australia; Reflux and Respiratory Disease; Support Group in the Spotlight - Prince of Wales Pink Panters; Screening Out Smoking; Aged Care Expos in 2007 and more...
November 2006
LungNet News November 2006 1.19 Mb
Featuring - Feeling Breathless? World COPD Day to highlight breathlessness and urge action; An update on Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS); The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Patient Support around Australia; LungNet Lifestyles Craig Honeybrook; Waiting for a Lung Transplant; Christmas Seals Appeal & Christmas Cards and more...
August 2006
LungNet News August 2006 922.18 Kb
Featuring - A More Uncommon Form of Lung Disease -"Pulmonary Fibrosis"; From the CEO's Desk; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; and more.
May 2006
LungNet News May 2006 1.16 Mb
Featuring - Flu Shots Save Lives; From the CEO's Desk; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; and more.
February 2006
LungNet News February 2006 1.42 Mb
Featuring - Nutritional Issues in COPD - how to eat well if you have COPD; From the CEO's Desk; World COPD Day Round-up; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; LungNet Lifestyles; Alpha- Antitrypsin Deficiency Association; Patient Support Australia and New Zealand; Experience of Setting up a LungNet Patient Support Group.
Special COPD Edition 2005
Special COPD Edition 2005 1.57 Mb
Featuring - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; What is COPD and what can I do about it?; Important steps for better living with COPD; You are not alone: LungNet is here to provide support; COPD vs Asthma How the lungs work; How is COPD diagnosed? The Australian Lung Foundation: Charting the course for COPD; Sail on with COPD; Pulmonary rehabilitation; Exercise and breathing control; Maintain a healthy diet; Communicate well with your doctor; Understand how your medications work; Now is the time to quit smoking; Protect yourself against chest infections; Oxygen - the simple facts; FAQs: climbing stairs.
November 2005
LungNet News November 2005 1.48 Mb
Featuring - World COPD Day 2005; Charting the Course for COPD; Working with your GP to manage COPD; From the CEO's Desk; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Lung Cancer Awareness Month; Exercising with Chronic Lung Disease; Living with Sarcoidosis; Support Group in the Spotlight - L.U.S.T; Patient Support around Australia & NZ; Christmas Seal Appeal; ALF's Handy Hints Corner; New Addition to the ALF team.
August 2005
LungNet News August 2005 2.87 Mb
Featuring - The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; From the CEO's Desk; Sarcoidosis Update; Immunotherapy; Ipswich Project Breathes New Hope for People with Chronic Respiratory Disease; "Road Test" of the LifeStyle Portable Oxygen Concentrator; Support Groups in the Spotlight - Northern Windbags; Patient Support around Australia & NZ; World COPD Day; New Research into COPD; Handy Hints
May 2005
LungNet News May 2005 0 bytes
Featuring - Helpful thinking patterns reduce disability; From the CEO's desk; Breathing control; ALF New Additions; Patient Support Around Australia; Handy Hints; Pulmonary Rehabilitation for People with COPD; South Australia Roundup; Medical Aids Subsidy Scheme; Pulmonary Rehabilitation Awareness Campaign April 2005; Support Groups in the Spotlight - Taree LungNet Support Group
February 2005
LungNet News February 2005 601.33 Kb
Featuring - Reducing your risk of catching common respiratory infections; A Hand Under the Elbow; Development updates; Airway clearance; David Emdur; Support Groups in the Spotlight - Toowoomba Better Breathing; Need Seed Funding?; Patient Support Around Australia; LungNet Lifestyles - Myrna Wakeling; World COPD 2004
November 2004
LungNet News November 2004 1.76 Mb
Featuring - Don't ignore COPD; Working for you and your health; Aids gadgets and devices; Forms of meditation; Gentle exercises to do at home; Have a laugh; Lungaroos; The Faces of LungNet Part 5; Lifestyles - June Brown; Christmas Seals Appeal
June 2004
LungNet News June 2004 1.62 Mb
Featuring - A happier healthier you; new benefits for ALF members; aids gadgets and devices; Oxygen the simple facts; Pneumonia a winter warning; Have a laugh; Looking out for yourself - self management; Big plans for the coming year and more!
February 2004
LungNet News February 2004 854.35 Kb
Featuring - Another reason to give up smoking: your pets, From critical care, Making the best of your health team, The faces of LungNet - Part 3, Working for you and your health, Adverse medicine events line, lung Cancer case Statement, Fund raising in the fast lane; Have a laugh, Medicines in hot weather, Pieters' Patter, membership notice.
October 2003
LungNet News October 2003 601.50 Kb
Featuring - Tradition of the Christmas seals, World COPD day Activities, Queensland Corporate Rugby Sevens major fundraising event, Aids Gadgets and Devices in the bathroom, Home Medicine Review, Travelling tips, LungNet goes national, The faces of LungNet Part 2, Medicines Line: hotline for medicines information, Pulmonary rehabilitation - why do it? Research and consultation
August 2003
LungNet News August 2003 585.52 Kb
Featuring - World COPD Day, The faces of LungNet - Part 1, The meaning of Sail On, A new CD Rom to help teach medication delivery devices, The real picture about Spacers and Nebulisers, The COPD Economic Case Statement.
May 2003 Featuring - COPDX Guidelines, what you can do to avoid a fall, Spiriva a new medication for COPD, lung volume reduction surgery, SARS - what you need to know, you can control your toilet stops!
Special Edition 2002 COPD
Special Edition 2002 COPD 320.35 Kb
Featuring - COPD and what you can do, "Sail On" program, exercise and breathing control, getting to know your medications, early detection of chest infections, helpful services for COPD, worried about smoking, carers matter.
October 2002
LungNet News October 2002 532.96 Kb
Featuring - World COPD Day, coping with a chronic illness part 2, managing your multiple medications, oxygen the simple facts, prevent falls, tips for a healthy and happy Christmas regular columns.
August 2002
LungNet News August 2002 311.50 Kb
Featuring - managing your medications (Part 1), staying strong, coping with a chronic illness: the concept of loss and grief, medicine and money matters, what else could be causing my shortness of breath, ALF charts course for COPD action and regular columns.
May 2002
LungNet News May 2002 423.93 Kb
Featuring - COPD moves into the spotlight, national activities and the COPD program, the national physical activity guidelines interpreted, forgetfulness or something more serious, the art of easy shopping, keeping your spirits up and regular columns.
December 2001
LungNet News December 2001 346.73 Kb
Featuring - gentle exercises to do at home, understanding the carer and patient relationship, is it legal to drive while using oxygen, obstructive sleep apnoea, which cooling system is best and regular columns.
September 2001
LungNet News September 2001 431.87 Kb
Featuring - what you can do about osteoporosis, what is tai chi ?, zyban - the new quit smoking pill, the good sleep guide, a consumers view of pulmonary rehabilitation, does chest pain heart attack and regular column.
May 2001
LungNet News May 2001 594.32 Kb
Featuring - what's new in COPD - prevention, treatment and genes, group exercise, what to do when you are losing weight and have no appetite, steroids in lung disease (Part 2), low allergy in gardens and regular columns.
February 2001
LungNet News February 2001 604.61 Kb
Featuring a - fresh look at coping with a lung disease - keeping your stress levels down, exercises to keep your muscles strong, steroids in lung disease, understanding breathing, swallowing and speaking (Part 2), what is your doctor looking for when asking about your sputum and regular columns.
October 2000
LungNet News October 2000 817.65 Kb
Featuring - understanding breathing, swallowing and speaking, new COPD and asthma medications, self management - an emerging theme in healthcare, why does exercise make you feel better and regular columns
July 2000
LungNet News July 2000 786.31 Kb
Featuring - the story of a man keeping the wind in his sails despite his emphysema, constipation and faecal incontinence, the Birth of a drug (Part 4), social isolation and loneliness, inhaled medication delivery devices, what is sarcoidosis and regular columns.
September 1999
LungNet News September 1999 1.26 Mb
Featuring having a lung condition doesn't mean an end to sex and intimacy, link between social support and good respiratory health, The birth of a drug (Part 2), respiratory medications explained, good communication skills - the art of listening and regular columns.
May 1999
LungNet News May 1999 440.76 Kb
Featuring - birth of a drug - from test tubes to the pharmacy shelves, managing incontinence, coping with loneliness and social phobia, clean air update, self management skills - goal setting, correct use of medications and regular columns.
March 1999
LungNet News March 1999 994.26 Kb
Featuring - a traveller's tale - tips when travelling with a respiratory illness, incontinence explained, panic attacks and how to manage them, and regular columns.
December 1998
LungNet News December 1998 982.39 Kb
Featuring - staying healthy during the festive season, work simplification and energy conservation in your daily routine (Part 1), strategies in helping other people who are grieving, accessing information for carers, and regular columns.
September 1998
LungNet News September 1998 896.41 Kb
Featuring - pulmonary rehabilitation explained, travel tips using your nebuliser on an aeroplane, Four tasks of grieving - addressing the losses with lung disease, techniques of controlled breathing while performing various activities and regular columns.
Content updated August 18, 2008
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