Royal Brompton & Harefield Nhs Foundation Trust

This study tested whether low-dose morphine can reduce chronic coughing in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a lung-scarring disease. Forty-four participants received either morphine or a placebo for two weeks, then switched after a week off. The goal was to see if…

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…