Royal Brompton & Harefield Nhs Foundation Trust

This study tested whether low-dose morphine can reduce coughing in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a lung-scarring disease. About 44 adults with chronic cough took either morphine or a placebo for 14 days each, without knowing which they received. The goal was to…

This study looked at how common cardiac cachexia (unintentional weight loss) is in people with advanced heart failure and how it affects their outcomes. Researchers followed about 200 patients for one year to compare survival and hospitalizations between those with and without th…