Monday, May 3, 2010

Food allergy: An immunological picture of atopy development

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What, exactly, does the phenotypic evolution of food allergy look like? Which factors, such as environment or genotype, exert the most influ...

Vitamin D and corticosteroid use in children

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Evidence is accumulating rapidly for the association between vitamin D insufficiency, lung function, and corticosteroid use and sensitivity....
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Administration of influenza vaccines to egg-allergic patients

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In this month’s issue, John Kelso, MD, wrangles with the very important clinical issue of vaccinating patients with egg allergy against infl...
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Monday, March 8, 2010

Stress and asthma

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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...
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Fungal exposure and inner-city children

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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

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The potential for anaphylaxis in subcutaneous specific immunotherapy (SCIT) is obvious. Current practice standards for evaluating, grading, ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Genome-wide association studies

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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...