American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Two interesting articles in this month's issue:

Erythromycin Inhibits Rhinovirus Infection in Cultured Human Tracheal Epithelial Cells

and

Intravenous Sildenafil Lowers Pulmonary Vascular Resistance in a Model of Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension

Of course the latter paper will get more attention ... though neither paper is patient oriented, and neither paper would change clinical practice at all.  The paper on erythromycin is a bit troubling to me .. as it is another piece of evidence that the use of antibiotics as anti-inflammatories may increase in the near future.  As UniSci news reports, there is much thought and research going into these ideas.