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Coverage will include the following key areas: - Prospects for new and emerging therapeutics - Epidemiology of disease - Preventive strategies - All aspects of COPD, from patient self-management to systemic effects of the disease and comorbidities - Improved diagnostic methods, including imaging techniques, biomarkers and physiological tests. - Advances in the treatment of respiratory infections and drug resistance issues - Occupational and environmental factors - Progress in smoking intervention and cessation methods - Disease and treatment issues for defined populations, such as children and the elderly - Respiratory intensive and critical care - Updates on the status and advances of specific disease areas, including asthma, HIV/AIDS-related disease, cystic fibrosis, COPD and sleep-disordered breathing morbidity