"Treatment Summer Camp" held at Mount Sinai In July, Dr. Xiu-Min Li held the annual "treatment summer camp" at the Mount Sinai Faculty Practice for the first time. The Kravis Children's Hospital at … [Read More] about Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Appetite for Disruption: Non-Meat Burger and the Question of New Allergens
By Henry Ehrlich I read an article in the morning paper about a product called “Impossible Burger,” which is the darling of certain high-end restaurants for tasting and feeling like beef but being made entirely from vegetable sources. Invented by a Stanford … [Read More...] about Appetite for Disruption: Non-Meat Burger and the Question of New Allergens
Too Many Auto-Injectors and Not Enough People Willing to Use Them
By Dr. Paul Ehrlich My local newspaper had an article the other day about a study published in July’s Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology that pointed to a systemic weakness in the war on anaphylaxis. Namely, the reluctance of caregivers to actually … [Read More...] about Too Many Auto-Injectors and Not Enough People Willing to Use Them
What Doctors Still Don’t Know About Anaphylaxis
By Dr. Paul Ehrlich The British Medical Journal recently published a survey about Russian physicians and anaphylaxis. What they knew and didn’t know should surprise no one. Surveys containing a clinical scenario pointing to food anaphylaxis went out … [Read More...] about What Doctors Still Don’t Know About Anaphylaxis
Expiration Dates—How important are they?
By Henry Ehrlich Who hasn’t rummaged through a medicine cabinet in the middle of the night looking for relief, only to spy an expiration date long past and wondered if relief might be worse than the disease? We recently featured an article by scientist and … [Read More...] about Expiration Dates—How important are they?
Skin in the Game: Unexpected Ingredients in Body Creams, Cosmetics, Skin Care Products, and Sunscreen
Food labels aren’t the only ones you have to read. The outside of the body, your skin, can be just as sensitive to allergens as the inside. A surprising number of skin products contain highly allergenic ingredients: milk, egg, and soy are found in many … [Read More...] about Skin in the Game: Unexpected Ingredients in Body Creams, Cosmetics, Skin Care Products, and Sunscreen
Book Review–Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
Matthew Smith Columbia University Press By Henry Ehrlich When I was writing my last book, Dr. Renata Engler said, among many wise things, that allergists had “lost connection with patient stories. Patients who don’t fit are marginalized.” And “Fifty … [Read More...] about Book Review–Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
Life in the Abstract–Part Four
By Henry Ehrlich (This abstract from Boston researchers at AAAAI in San Diego should be read by anyone who has considered the relative safety of peanut-free schools vs. non-peanut-free schools.) 719 Impact Of School Peanut-Free Guidelines On Epinephrine … [Read More...] about Life in the Abstract–Part Four
Explaining Food Allergy Tests Through Baseball Statistics
By Dr. Paul Ehrlich One of the recurring themes in diagnosing and managing food allergies is confusion over the meaning of different tests. After studying the test results, parents, patients, and doctors still can’t answer basic questions: is my child … [Read More...] about Explaining Food Allergy Tests Through Baseball Statistics
Stop Kicking Yourself, Mom; Mother Worries that She Caused Son’s Allergies
By Dr. Paul Ehrlich We recently received this distraught letter: “My son has dust allergies and asthma. I have been blaming myself for this because since my children were born I really let the house cleaning go. For many years I very rarely ran the … [Read More...] about Stop Kicking Yourself, Mom; Mother Worries that She Caused Son’s Allergies
Fatal Anaphylaxis: What the Numbers Tell Us
By Robert Y. Lin, MD The October 7 Science section of the New York Times had a short article about a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) called “Fatal anaphylaxis in the United States, 1999-2010: Temporal patterns and … [Read More...] about Fatal Anaphylaxis: What the Numbers Tell Us
“Davos Declaration: Allergy as a global problem”
By Henry Ehrlich The word “Davos” used to mean to global enterprise and politics what Cannes means to the movie industry--an annual destination for everybody who was anybody--and maybe it still does. Of course what counted for importance was fluid. During … [Read More...] about “Davos Declaration: Allergy as a global problem”
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