This reader-friendly resource provides a powerful, broad-based perspective on the most important advances from throughout the world literature. Featuring renowned guest editors and focusing exclusively on one to three topics, every issue of Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine delivers unvarnished, expert assessments of developments from the previous year. Insightful editorials and on-the-mark invited reviews cover key subjects such as asthma; obstructive, occupational, and environmental diseases; disorders of pulmonary circulation; neoplasms of the lung; sleep and respiratory neurobiology; and cystic fibrosis--some nine items in all of major relevance.