«This is important because it suggests that the livers of actual patients with this disease might be more sensitive in the same way,» said Wilson, who is also a physician in pulmonary, critical care and
allergy medicine at BMC.
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Dr. Rebecca Gruchalla of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and Dr. Hugh Sampson of Icahn School
at Mount Sinai in New York City authored the editorial on rising peanut
allergies in the February 23 New England Journal of
Medicine.
At the annual meeting in February of the American Academy of
Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Dr. Gideon Lack of King's College in London, England, presented information from his study on peanut
allergies which was also published in the New England Journal of
Medicine.
«More children have peanut
allergies and they're getting older,» said Dr. Scott Sicherer of the Jaffe Food
Allergy Institute
at Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine in New York.
About 12 million Americans are thought to have food
allergies, said Dr. Scott Sicherer, associate professor of pediatrics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and author of «Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergie
allergies, said Dr. Scott Sicherer, associate professor of pediatrics
at Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine in New York and author of «Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food
AllergiesAllergies.»
Title (s): Director, Center for Food Related Diseases
at Tufts Medical Center; Co-Director, Food
Allergy Center
at Floating Hospital for Children; Allergist; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of
Medicine Department (s):
Medicine, Pediatric
Allergy, Gastroenterology, Pediatric Gastroenterology Appt.
«Testing for specific IgE to foods, through either skin or serum testing, is very helpful in diagnosing IgE - mediated food allergic reactions, but these tests should never take the place of a good history or possibly a food challenge,» said Todd D. Green, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary
Medicine,
Allergy & Immunology
at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
Prior to moving to San Diego, he was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of
Allergy / Immunology
at Duke University School of
Medicine.
Dr Robert Boyle, lead author of the research from the Department of
Medicine at Imperial, said: «This new analysis pools all existing data, and suggests introducing egg and peanut
at an early age may prevent the development of egg and peanut
allergy, the two most common childhood food
allergies.
Todd Green, MD, FAAAI, is an allergist / immunologist in the Division of Pulmonary
Medicine,
Allergy and Immunology
at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Allergy / Immunology Fellowship Program, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine.
Title (s): Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Co-Director, Food
Allergy Center
at Floating Hospital for Children; Director, Pediatric Clinical Trials, OB / GYN - Pediatric Clinical Trials Program; Associate Professor, Tufts University School of
Medicine Department (s): Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Appt.
The study is a project of the Asthma and
Allergy Foundation of America, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and the Department of Population
Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Sicherer is a professor of pediatrics
at the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine's Jaffe Food
Allergy Institute.
«This study shows that severe food
allergies are beginning to impact children of all races and income,» said lead study author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics
at Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine and an attending physician
at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
«We did this study to understand whether, in addition to PM2.5, coarse particulate matter contributes to asthma development and morbidity,» said Corinne A. Keet, MD, PhD, lead study author and associate professor of pediatric
allergy and immunology
at Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will appear online on March 3 in the New England Journal of
Medicine (NEJM) to coincide with its presentation
at a meeting of the 2018 Joint Congress of the American Academy of
Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the World
Allergy Organization (WAO) in Orlando, Florida.
Babies who develop food
allergies display hyperactive immune responses
at birth, according to a study of about 1000 infants published in the 13 January issue of Science Translational
Medicine.
«It has long been thought that ECAC did not contribute to poor lung function or respiratory symptoms,» said Surya Bhatt, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy and Critical Care
Medicine at UAB and lead author of the study.
The report will be published Oct. 20 in the American Journal of Preventive
Medicine, and Gupta will present the findings
at the American College of
Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held Nov. 6 to 10 in Atlanta.
Baylor College of
Medicine / Kent State University / McGovern
Allergy Clinic / University of Texas
at Houston
Two drugs used to treat asthma and
allergies may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia that can kill up to 40 percent of people who contract it, researchers
at the University of Virginia School of
Medicine have found.
In the first study conducted with IgEnio, the MedUni Vienna researchers
at the Institute of Pathophysiology and
Allergy Research, led by Rudolf Valenta and lead author Christian Lupinek, Kurt Derfler from the Division of Nephrology and Dialysis (Department of
Medicine III) and Ventzislav Petkov from the Division of Pulmonology (Department of
Medicine II), were able to show that this absorption technique brings about a significant improvement in the quality of life for sufferers during the pollen season — even those with a greatly elevated IgE levels.
The research was a collaboration between investigators
at the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health, and Matthew B. Frieman, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland School of
Medicine in Baltimore.
«A contact
allergy is a different kind of reaction from
allergies to pollen, pet dander or food,» said senior author Wayne M. Yokoyama, MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
at the School of
Medicine.
Other researchers involved in the study are Jennifer Maloney, M.D., Amarjot Kaur, Ph.D., Nancy Lui, Ph.D., and Hendrik Nolte, M.D., Ph.D.,
at Merck; David Bernstein, M.D.,
at the Bernstein Clinical Research Center and University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine, in Ohio; Thomas Casale, M.D.,
at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.; Robert Fisher, M.D.,
at Allergy Research and Care in Milwaukee, Wis.; Kevin Murphy
at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Neb.; and Kristof Nekam, M.D.,
at Hospital of the Hospitaller, Brothers of St. John of God, in Budapest, Hungary.
«Physicians treating ragweed
allergy sufferers may soon have an alternative to the current approach to managing ragweed
allergy, which usually involves weekly or monthly visits to the doctor's office for
allergy shots and carries the risk of swelling and pain
at the injection site, plus risk of anaphylactic shock,» says Creticos, an associate professor
at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
Vitamin D supplementation is unlikely to reduce the risk of asthma in children or adults, atopic dermatitis, or
allergies according to a new study published in PLOS
Medicine by Brent Richards, of McGill University, Canada, and the Lady Davis Institute
at the Jewish General Hospital, Canada, and colleagues.
«Our findings are useful to help predict which children may develop asthma and
allergies,» said the study's first author, Maxwell Tran, a BHSc graduate from McMaster University and AllerGen trainee who is now studying
medicine at the University of Toronto.
«You never get rid of this stuff,» said Corry, professor of
medicine and chief of the division of immunology,
allergy and rheumatology
at Baylor.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers from Emory University, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, and the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa and was funded by the U.S. National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases
at the National Institutes of Health.
«Although the blood basophil activation test has been shown to be an important addition to the tools available for discriminating between allergic and non-allergic individuals and predicting the severity of food
allergy reactions,
at this time it is only approved for research purposes,» says senior author Xiu - Min Li, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
at the Icahn School of
Medicine.
«This study highlights genes and molecular processes that could be targets for new therapies to treat peanut -
allergy reactions and could be important to understanding how peanut
allergy works overall,» said the study's senior author, Supinda Bunyavanich, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai.
«We are very happy,» says Matthew Frieman of the University of Maryland School of
Medicine in Baltimore, who got a call from his program officer
at the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) yesterday.
Scott H. Sicherer, a professor of pediatrics,
allergy and immunology
at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, takes the early desensitization idea a step further.
Researchers
at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of
Medicine studied the link between food
allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children.
«There is no standardized step-wise approach to testing,» writes Dr. Elissa Abrams, Division of Paediatric
Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with Dr. Scott Sicherer, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, Jaffe Food
Allergy Institute, New York, NY.
«Despite the potential severity of food
allergy reactions, there are many schools where the nurse may not be onsite
at all times,» said Julie Wang, MD, FAAP, a co-author of the abstract and an associate professor of pediatrics and
allergy and immunology
at Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Roth - Walter, working
at the department of Comparative
Medicine at the Messerli Research Institute says: «Knowledge of the molecular structure of allergens has contributed very significantly to our conclusion about milk
allergy.
A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of
Medicine in the division of Pulmonary,
Allergy, and Critical Care and the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center
at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.
He completed his internal
medicine residency
at the University of Michigan before completing his fellowship in
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
at the University of Rochester.
He completed his internal
medicine residency
at the University of Michigan and then also completed his fellowship in
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
at the University of Michigan.
Biosketch: Dr. Robert A.J. Signer is an Assistant Professor of
Medicine in the Division of Regenerative
Medicine at the University of California San Diego and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Division of Developmental Immunology
at the La Jolla Institute for
Allergy and Immunology.
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative
Medicine, which brings together five of the world's top research institutions — UC San Diego, Sanford - Burnham Medical Research Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and La Jolla Institute for
Allergy and Immunology — opens a $ 127 million facility
at UC San Diego.
Nathalie Fuentes, a third - year biomedical sciences PhD student
at Penn State College of
Medicine, was selected from among hundreds of students nationwide to participate in a program
at the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) held Feb. 5 to 8 in Bethesda, Md..
Prof. Graham Roberts, Professor and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Paediatric
Allergy and Respiratory
Medicine at the University of Southampton, said:
Prof. Anthony Frew, Professor of
Allergy & Respiratory
Medicine at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, said:
Also study authors were Yi Ding of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center; Oliver J. Harrison of the Mucosal Immunology Section in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
at the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in Bethesda, Maryland; and Yasmine Belkaid of the NIAID Microbiome Program.
At the University of Michigan Asthma and Airway Center, our multidisciplinary team of specialists from Pulmonary & Critical Care
Medicine,
Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Public Health, and Patient Education work together to comprehensively treat and educate patients with all levels of asthma severity.