Oasys and Occupational Asthma

The website is run by the Oasys research group, part of the Midland Thoracic Society, UK. We are an independent group of clinicians and researchers, and run a clinical service for workers with occupational lung disease as part of the British National Health Service. We have developed the Oasys program to help ourselves and others in the diagnosis of occupational asthma. We have no specific funding, relying on research grants and the enthusiasm of our group. The website is written by Cedd Burge, who receives some funding from the group. The group meets about every 6 weeks on a Wednesday evening, as shown below.

As a casual user of this site (without logging in or registering) you can view all the information, use all the contact pages and request a copy of the old version of Oasys. Registered and logged in users (registering is free and we won't abuse your email) can download and use the new versions of Oasys, ask and reply to questions in the forums,  add new references, add abstracts and full text links to existing references, answer questions in the case histories and provide evidence and suggest questions for future evidence based guidelines.

If you would like to be added to the list of known authors or collaborators then please register with the website (if you have not already done so) and then get in touch from the contact page. Once we have set the page up you will be able to edit it yourself and indicate which references you have written. Your picture will then be displayed along with each of these references. If you are already in these lists and would like to edit your page then please register with the website and then get in touch from the contact page.

Funding

Recent research grants / contracts have been received from the following.

• The National Institue for Occupational Safety and Health (US)
• The Health and Safety Executive (UK)
• CEFIC (Europe)
• The Colt Foundation (UK)