JACI Journal Club

Each month, the Editors of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology will select two JACI articles for discussion. Readers are invited to send in their questions and comments, which will be addressed by the authors. Articles highlighted on this blog are available free of charge from the links in each post.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Administration of influenza vaccines to egg-allergic patients

In this month’s issue, John Kelso, MD, wrangles with the very important clinical issue of vaccinating patients with egg allergy against infl...

Monday, March 8, 2010

Stress and asthma

In this issue of JACI, Haczku and Panettieri review the evidence for the involvement of stress in asthma and find that it suggests that psy...

Fungal exposure and inner-city children

In another effort to pin down factors that increase asthma morbidity in inner-city children, Pongracic et al. report results from their stu...

Grading systemic reactions to immunotherapy

The potential for anaphylaxis in subcutaneous specific immunotherapy (SCIT) is obvious. Current practice standards for evaluating, grading, ...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Genome-wide association studies

What are we to make of genome-wide association studies (GWAS)? In an editorial highlighting 3 articles in this month’s issue ( Wu et al. ; L...

Omalizumab pre-treatment and immunotherapy

Following up on significant results from a study that demonstrated benefit of pre-treatment with omalizumab prior to initiation of specific ...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Air cleaners and filters - A rostrum

We focus this week on a Rostrum contribution, " Air filters and air cleaners: Rostrum by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & ...

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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Founded in 1929, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) is the official journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI).

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