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February 2013
10 Myths about Lung Transplantation; From the CEO's Desk; World COPD Day 2012; Inaugural Australian Rare Lung Disease Short Course, 9-10 August 2013; Australian Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Registry; Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency News; Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Staff Race to Show Us Their Lungs; Ask the Health Professional; Oxygen Solutions to be Gold Sponsor of National Lung Health Education Days; New Lung Foundation Australia Initiatives for 2013; Farewell to Lung Foundation Friends; Lungs in Action; New Resources; COPD National Patient Taskforce Report; New Patient Support Groups; Lung Health Education Days; Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update
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November 2012
What is Palliative Care?; From the CEO's Desk; Farewell to Lung Foundation Friends; Leaving a Legacy for Future Generations; Legionnaires' Disease; After Hours GP Helpline; Ask the Health Professional; Lung Health Awareness Month; Patient Support around Australia; Fourth Australian Lung Cancer Conference Held in Adelaide; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) National Registry; New and Revised Resources; Launch of Asthma Emergency Kit during National Asthma Week; Olympic Fever Hits Lungs in Action at Castle Hill, Sydney; LungNet Education Day Wrap Up; Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; COPD National Patient Taskforce Report
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August 2012
The Link between Anxiety and Your Lung Condition; From the CEO's Desk; Home Life Support Equipment and Your Power Company; Farewell to Lung Foundation Friends; Show Us Your Lungs Day 2012; COPD Online Training Resources Update; Ask the Health Professional; COPD National Patient Taskforce Report; Patient Support around Australia; Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; World COPD Day 2012; Community Approach to Lungs in Action Program in Colac, Victoria; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) National Registry
May 2012
The Risks of Influenza for People with Lung Disease and the benefits of Getting Vaccinated Now; From the CEO's Desk; New Online Training on COPD for Primary Care Nurses Now Available; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) National Registry; New Lung Care Nurse – Antonica Daniela Wilson; Can Vitamin D Ward off Colds and Flu; Farewell to Lung Foundation Friends; Please Support our 2012 Tax Appeal; Better Living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – A Patient Guide; World Spirometry Day 2012; Ask the Health Professional; Australasian Lung cancer Trials Group (ALTG) Update; Patient Support around Australia; Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; Cough in Children and Adults: Diagnosis and Assessment (CICADA) Group Update; Lungs in Action; Pulmonary Interstital Vascular Organisational Taskforce (PIVOT) Update; Breath of Life Music Festival Blew the Crowd Away; COPD National Patient Taskforce Report; Portable Oxygen Concentrators
February 2012
Maintaining Healthy Airways; Lungs in Action Report; Update on Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS); Cough in Children and Adults: Diagnosis and Assessment; Group Update; Farewell to Lung Foundation Friends; From the CEO's Desk; Diary Dates 2012; Ask the Health Professional; Patient Support Around Australia; Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; World COPD Day 2011; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) National Registry; COPD National Patient Taskforce Report; World Spirometry Day 2012; Invacare to Sponsor Lungnet Education Days in 2012
November 2011
How the Weather Affects Patients with Respiratory Conditions; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Diseases – PIVOT Report; News from the Lung Care Nurse; The Australian Lung Foundation's Multi-centre Clinical Trials Network (MCTN); LungNet Education Days; New Lungs for Denise; From the CEO's Desk; Treatment Compliance – Why Do What the Doctor Ordered?; Farewell to Lung Foundation Friends; COPD Patient Taskforce Report; Patient Support Around Australia; Lungs in Action – Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula; Lung Health Awareness Month and World COPD Day 2011; Pat Carroll Running Group Raises Funds for the Lung Foundation; New COPD Management Resource Available
August 2011
May 2011
Maintaining Intimacy When You Have Lung Disease; Be Medicinewise; Lungs in Action Report; News from the Lung Care Nurse; Benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation – A Reader's Perspective; From the CEO's Desk; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; International Woman of the Year Award Nomination for Veronica Kemp; COPD Patient Taskforce Report; Patient Support Around Australia; Something in the Air; Vale to Pam Gibson; PIVOT Report; Multi-centre Clinical Trials Network (MCTN)
February 2011
Why Collapse When You Can Conquer – Energy Conservation Strategies; From the CEO's Desk; Lungs in Action Update; After Hours Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Royal Brisbane Hospital; COPD Patient Taskforce Report; Environmental Effects on Lung Disease – Mould and Fungus; Getting Started on Home Oxygen; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; PIVOT Report; Patient Support Around Australia; World COPD Day 2010; Diary Dates 2011; COPD Online: An Interactive Training Program for Primary Care Nurses; Launch of Multi-Centre Clinical Trials Network (MCTN) Website; Vale to Roslyn Hogan; Lung Care Nurse at the Australian Lung Foundation; National Lung Cancer Telephone Support Group Pilot Project
November 2010
2010: The Year of the Lung; Update on the Community Service Announcement and the Lung Health Checklist; National Lung Cancer Tree Planting Days; From the CEO's Desk; COPD Patient Stories; Diary Dates; World Spirometry Day; World COPD Day; News from the world of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; COPD Patient Task Force Report; Depression and Lung Disease; The Kyle Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; Patient Support Around Australia; Vale to Lung Foundation Friends; Living with Respiratory Disease: Kathleen's Story; Lungs in Action; Getting Started on Home Oxygen – A New Resource.
August 2010
What Role Does Your GP Play in the Management of Your Lung Condition; From the CEO's Desk; 2010: The Year of the Lung – World Spirometry Day and National Tree Planting for Lung Cancer Day; Towards a Measurement of Airway Re-modelling in Asthma; Positive Change for Patients from Australian Primary Care Collaborative (APCC) Program; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network Update; Multidisciplinary Care for all Patients with Cancer; Patient Support Around Australia; Vale to Margaret Gibson; Singing for COPD: An Innovative Therapy; 2010 World COPD Day; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; Lungs in Action; National Companion Card Launch; COPD Patient Taskforce Report.
May 2010
Fitness to Fly; 2010: The Year of the Lung Report; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; From the CEO's Desk; COPD Patient Taskforce Report; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network; Flu Season is Approaching; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; 2010 Breath of Life Music Festival Update; Vale to Helen Cayas; Lungs in Action Update and Release of new resources, including a Lung Cancer DVD.
February 2010
Poor Nutrition and Respiratory Health Part 1; A Report on 2010: The Year of the Lung; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; From the CEO's Desk; Update on Triumph for Breath; COPD Patient Taskforce Report; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; Travelling with Oxygen; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur and Vale to Lung Foundation Friends and more…
November 2009
Carbon Dioxide Retention in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; NSW Respiratory Program wins Award; From the CEO's Desk; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; Sydney Adventist Hospital's 'Jacanadra Lodge' Lung Cancer Support Group; COPD Flare-Ups; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; How Allergens Promote the Wrong Type of Immune Response in Asthma; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur and more…
August 2009
Featuring – Advances in Scleroderma Related Lung Diseases; From the CEO's Desk; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; Triumph for Breath; World COPD Day 2009 Update; Richies Supermarket Community Benefits Scheme, Update on LungNet Education Day Western Australia; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network (KJLCN) Update; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Report from The Australian Lung Foundation's State Council Victoria and more…
May 2009
Featuring – Bronchiectasis – What it is it, how it occurs, symptoms, tests and treatment; From the CEO's Desk; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; Clinical Trials – The Who, What, When and Why; Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network Update; Patient Support around Australia and New Zealand; Tribute to Dr William Scowcroft; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; The Benefits of Patient Support Groups and more….
February 2009
Featuring – The Benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation – what is pulmonary rehabilitation and the benefits to be gained; From the CEO's Desk; Through My Eyes – A Patient's View on Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Plant a Tree for Lung Cancer; Managing Breathlessness; News from the World of Interstitial and Orphan Lung Disease; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network Update; COPD Patient Handbook; Patient Support around Australia and New Zealand; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur and more….
November 2008
Featuring – Lung Function Tests – why they are performed and explanation of some results; Australian Lung Cancer Conference Wrap Up; From the CEO's Desk; The Kylie Johnston Lung Cancer Network Update; News from the World of Orphan Lung Disease; Patient Support around Australia; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; Roy Martin – Running to Reduce his Breathlessness; Hunter Valley Pharmacy Project; World COPD Day 2008 Update and more….
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…
May 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Featuring – Flu Shots Save Lives; From the CEO's Desk; The Lighter Side by Larry Emdur; and more.
February 2006
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.