USEFUL LINKS

American Thoracic Society:
www.thoracic.org
Professional society representing American chest physicians. It also has significant international membership. Their annual convention is the largest annual research event in chest medicine. The society also publishes one of the most respected chest medicine research journals, the American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. They also publish guidelines widely followed by chest physicians locally. The site is more useful to healthcare professionals.

American College of Chest Physicians:
www.chestnet.org
This is a society that includes mainly professionals with an interest in chest medicine. Actively involved in professional education. They also publish Chest, a well respected journal on chest medicine. The site is also mainly for professionals

British Thoracic Society:
www.brit-thoracic.org.uk
Society representing the respiratory physicians in the United Kingdom. Useful for the healthcare professionals with their published guidelines on management of diseases of the lungs. Their guidelines on air travel for patients with lung diseases is useful.

Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA):
www.ginasthma.org
Useful website for patients with asthma. They also publish the guidelines followed by doctors in treating asthma.

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD):
www.goldcopd.com
Useful site for patients with Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.

National Jewish Medical and Research Centre:
www.njc.org
Widely respected quartenary treatment and research centre in the United States focusing on lung diseases. They are particularly noted for work in asthma, allergy, mycobacterial lung diseases and occupational lung diseases. Voted No.1 respiratory hospital by US News for the 10th. consecutive year.

Singapore Thoracic Society:
www.sts.org.sg
The society represents chest physicians in Singapore.