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Respiratory Patient Advocate for better diagnosis, care and support. Keep active, keep moving, keep well 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🌲🌻🏋️🤸‍♀️
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The festive period is a great time to celebrate with loved ones and family. However, there are also some things that could impact your lung condition at this time of year. You can find our advice here: www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/living-with/...
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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🎓 A reminder of the fantastic news that many will be waking up to this morning...

🥳 A win for our young people, our universities, and our economy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4ng7ee9vwo
Erasmus scheme to return for UK students, BBC understands
The UK ended its participation in the scheme in 2020 after agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Many challenges in lung health cut across conditions. That’s why the #LungGrandChallenges are designed to unite the field around shared priorities that make space for impactful and transformative research.
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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1 in 5 people will develop a chronic lung disease, yet asthma, COPD, ILD and bronchiectasis are often misdiagnosed. With @asthmaandlung.org.uk, we've shared guidance for developers to create a primary care test that helps people get the right treatment sooner.

🔗 Read the guide: https://t.ly/GkoS7
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Today is Human Rights Day. We reaffirm our commitment to the inalienable rights of all people to freedom, life and safety from Palestine to Congo, Haiti to Sudan, and here in the UK, amidst inadequate living standards, privacy infringements and persecution for political action.
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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That’s a wrap on #BTSWinter2025. One message is clear: progress in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment demands collaboration. Want to be a part of shaping the future of respiratory research?
Sign up for #LungGrandChallenges updates: bit.ly/4q4YKfa
Lung Research Grand Challenges
The Lung Research Grand Challenges are three bold, 10-year goals developed by the Lung Research and Innovation Group (LRIG) with input from researchers, clinicians, patients, and funders. Find out how...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#WalkNovember #COPD Awareness- last few day 15 mins daily to raise money for Breathe Easy support group- Gloucester UK. It’s gone well, almost 1/2 target reached. Any help you can give us welcome. bit.ly/43AfRMk
Help raise £750 to Breathe Easy Group-Gloucester UK. A support group for people with respiratory conditions, and carers too. – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Breathe Easy Group-Gloucester UK. A support group for people with respiratory conditions, and carers too. . Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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If you have a lung condition you need to be prepared. Check out our cold weather advice for simple steps to stay well in this cold snap. www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/living-with/...
Cold weather and your lungs
Cold weather can make the symptoms of your lung condition worse and increase your risk becoming unwell. Find out how to stay well this winter.
www.asthmaandlung.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Temperatures have dropped across the UK and cold weather alerts have been issued across England. There are also yellow alerts in place for snow and ice across parts of Scotland and northern England.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Come join us on November 19th for 24 hrs of #pulmonaryrehab #exercise #activity #education #COPDBatonPass2025
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Have you joined the Inogen Step Challenge Team to help highlight the importance of activity to manage #COPD
Times running out!

Join the "Inogen Step Challenge"
join.thestepupapp.com/NllY2S
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"This is demonstrative of a much wider systemic issue which is men in power who abuse women - or allegedly abuse women - and I think it's really important that we centre the survivors in this conversation."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on BBC Newsnight.
October 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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56 days until #COPDBatonPass25 begins. Scan the QR code to join the world’s greatest step challenge!
#copd
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Did you know that your body clock might affect your asthma? Professor @hdurrington.bsky.social's research study has found that testing in the morning could help people receive a more accurate diagnosis for their asthma.
September 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Peace, Peace, Peace to everyone on the planet.
September 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Have you signed our clean air e-petition? If not, you still have plenty of time! We need your help as we demand governments across the UK to urgently implement the latest air quality guidelines set by the World Health Organisation, to protect the health of future generations.
July 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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There is just one more week to enter our summer competition with amazing prizes up for grabs – entries close at 5pm on Tuesday 12 August. The sun may not be shining as brightly but we’d still love to see you enjoying yourself outdoors. Enter here: www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/summer-compe...
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Do you know what the Right Wing Media in the USA said when they saw photographs sneaked out from Concentration Camps during the Holocaust?

They said they were fake, and demanded more.

These people are rehashing lies 80 years old.
July 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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More than 2 million people in Gaza — including some 1 million children — face desperate and worsening hunger.

Doctors and nutrition experts say the children who survive the lack of nourishment are often face a lifetime of health woes.
Gazans are starving. Here’s what lack of food does to the human body.
Children suffering under severe food shortages can face lifelong consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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In the vast landscape of the mind, two forces are constantly at play: delusion and awareness.
Buddha as Person, Buddha as Experience is a spiritual travelogue that invites readers on an inner journey guided by one of the most profound figures in history.
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Buddha as Person, Buddha as Experience.
As we live it, our practice becomes the vessel that carries us forward, and with each moment of awareness, we touch upon the truth the Buddha himself encountered under the Bodhi tree.
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July 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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No more sucking up to Trump.

No more hand waving about so called "special relationships."

Beyond time for Keir Starmer to condemn this - and then stop our own active involvement with the genocide.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive
Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
www.bbc.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"People are allowed to come here and claim asylum."

@carolinelucas.bsky.social challenges Tim Montgomerie's irresponsible language on BBC Newsnight.
July 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Israel 2025 "If you all just go into the Concentration Camp, everything will be just fine."

Nazis 1940s "If you all just go into the Concentration Camp, everything will be just fine."
July 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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To engage with the Buddha is to tread two intertwined paths: one that honours the man who walked among us, his story etched into time; and another that embraces the living experience of his teachings, which transcends temporal and cultural boundaries.
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Buddha as Person, Buddha as Experience.
As we live it, our practice becomes the vessel that carries us forward, and with each moment of awareness, we touch upon the truth the Buddha himself encountered under the Bodhi tree.
wp.me
July 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM