Dr. Xiu-Min Li has now shifted her research headquarters to New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York where she continues to conduct her usual robust scientific agenda in collaboration with other … [Read More] about Traditional Chinese Medicine
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First Food Allergy Treatment Approved by FDA
BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIMT), a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing treatments for potentially life-threatening food allergies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration … [Read More...] about First Food Allergy Treatment Approved by FDA
Letter from Melbourne—an Allergist Reports on the Australian Wildfires
Australian wildfires are a daily part of the news cycle. Astronauts in the international space station are watching as smoke circles the earth. Players have withdrawn from the Australian Open, one of the four grand slam tournaments. A billion animals dead. To … [Read More...] about Letter from Melbourne—an Allergist Reports on the Australian Wildfires
Effects of Sleep Deprivation & Exercise on Food Allergy Reactions
As reported in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, team of UK researchers administered an estimated threshold dose of peanut in a blind challenge. Then participants with a confirmed allergy "underwent 3 open peanut challenges in random order: with … [Read More...] about Effects of Sleep Deprivation & Exercise on Food Allergy Reactions
Dupilumab—Real World Lessons from a Blockbuster Drug
By Henry Ehrlich We have covered this breakthrough drug for years from before FDA approval when a presentation by Dr. Emma Guttman-Yassky at a New York Allergy & Asthma Society dinner treated the audience to “before” pictures of atopic dermatitis that … [Read More...] about Dupilumab—Real World Lessons from a Blockbuster Drug
New Asthma Treatments on the Horizon
{Note: in October we heard Dr. Arnold Levinson challenge an audience of allergists to name a breakthrough in asthma treatment since inhaled corticosteroids. To find out what is going on, we asked our favorite pulmonologist to look into the crystal ball and … [Read More...] about New Asthma Treatments on the Horizon
Asthma in India—An Epidemic of Mind Boggling Proportions
By Henry Ehrlich Normally when I have to call my bank’s customer service department I am in a state of what used to be called “high dudgeon.” I.e. a state of extreme indignation. The exception was for a period of about six months several years ago when … [Read More...] about Asthma in India—An Epidemic of Mind Boggling Proportions
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Allergy
by Dr. Xiu-Min Li Allergic diseases are a significant health problem in “Westernized” countries. They represent a tremendous burden on quality of life for both patients and their families, and health care expenditures for the society as a whole. Food … [Read More...] about Traditional Chinese Medicine and Allergy
New App Makes Asthma Peak Flow Monitoring Easy
The issue of compliance is an ongoing preoccupation of ours. No asthma medicine is effective if you don’t take it as directed. Dr. Chiaramonte wrote a piece a couple of years ago about an article by Canadian researcher Paul O’Byrne Larry asked the question, … [Read More...] about New App Makes Asthma Peak Flow Monitoring Easy
The Fire This Time
By Caroline Moassessi "The kicker is going to be the next six weeks," said John Glenn, chief of fire operations for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Boise. "We definitely have the potential (for more fires) in California, in the Pacific Northwest, and … [Read More...] about The Fire This Time
The Snarky Sociologist
By Henry Ehrlich By complete coincidence, the letters column of the New York Times Monday morning contained this snippet of W.H. Auden that he read in his 1946 Harvard commencement address: “Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social … [Read More...] about The Snarky Sociologist
Don’t Take That Asthma Medication—It’s Bad for Your Asthma
By Dr. Larry Chiaramonte The long-acting beta agonist [LABA] paradox strikes again. A new article in a Milwaukee newspaper sounds an old theme. Advair, the most widely used asthma medicine, contains a long-acting beta agonist—salmeterol. “[L]ong-acting … [Read More...] about Don’t Take That Asthma Medication—It’s Bad for Your Asthma
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