Dr. Martin and Ms. Food Allergy Mom: Grad School Never Prepared Her For This
By Jessica Martin, PhD Ever since I was a child, I possessed a deep desire to know how things work. Eventually, this innate curiosity led me down a career path in science, where I could push and...
View ArticleDr. Martin and Ms. Food Allergy Mom part 2: The Parent Talks Back
By Jessica Martin, PhD FROM A FOOD ALLERGY PARENT TO THE ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SCIENTISTS/CLINICIANS As a scientist, I love knowing how things work, knowledge for the sake of knowledge. If there are...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleFood Allergies: Taking the Long View
By Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD The food allergy epidemic is now big enough and public enough that we have to come to grips with what it means for the future of American society, and indeed for the rest of...
View ArticleAllergy as Metaphor
By Mark Jackson By the dawn of the twenty-first century, allergy had become a rich cultural resource for expressing and exchanging social anxieties about the material and ideological determinants and...
View ArticleFood in the Curriculum and the Food-Allergic Student
By Jan Hanson, M.A. Way back when, food was eaten at lunch in a lunchroom. Now it’s everywhere in schools. Snacks, holiday parties, birthdays and celebrations—no day is complete unless it’s punctuated...
View ArticleWhat Makes Tony Run? Life-Long Asthmatic Speaks Out on Treatment
By Anthony Cook 45 years was enough!! Over a lifetime, I had endured every type of medication and asthma treatment that was available. But it seemed that the older I got the less I reacted positively...
View ArticleThe Big Picture on Testing
By Dr. Davis Liu (We continually revisit the subject of testing for allergies—both strengths and limitations—mostly as a matter of medical utility. But testing isn’t just an issue with allergies,...
View ArticleProtect Your Digestion, the First Line of Defense Against Food Allergies
By Dr. Eva Untersmayr Food allergy researchers worldwide have been trying for years to figure out why foods that should be nutritious may cause potentially life-threatening reactions in food-allergic...
View ArticleNorth to Alaska: a Southern Doctor Adjusts to Life in the 49th State
By Melinda M. Rathkopf, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, FAAP Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Center of Alaska Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Washington I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta. Every spring...
View ArticleDownwind from Yosemite, Clean Desert Air Turns to Asthma Nightmare
By Caroline Moassessi (Reno, Nevada) Smoke reached out from the fire on the Yosemite rim and grabbed my community in the Reno/Spark and Lake Tahoe area by the throat. It hasn’t let go! Literally, our...
View ArticleAsthma: the Mother of Invention
By Mark Jackson “The commercial manufacture of the electric vacuum cleaner by William H. Hoover (1849-1932) in the early twentieth century had initially been driven by a desire to find a solution to...
View ArticleAccess to Epinephrine in Arizona: Grassroots Activism Pays Off
By Lisa Horne, president Arizona Food Allergy Alliance (AFAA) In 2012 Senator Linda Lopez approached AFAA as the leading voice for the food allergy and anaphylaxis community of Arizona, regarding...
View ArticleFood Allergy Researchers Can Learn from “Negative” Results
By Jessica Martin, PhD Thomas Edison once reflected on his so-called “light bulb” moments: “During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was...
View ArticleAllergy—A New Word is Coined
Clemens von Pirquet Munchen Med Wehnscher 1906 In the course of the last few years a number of facts have been collected which belong to the domain of Immunology but fit poorly into its framework....
View ArticleBeyond Medications: Treatments for Atopic Dermatitis
By Peter A. Lio Anyone afflicted with even a mild, occasional case of atopic dermatitis (AD) or eczema knows how annoying and distracting it can be. The skin is our primary defense against the world,...
View ArticleAsthma Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
By Mark Jackson (From Asthma: The Biography Oxford University Press, 2009) “As regular letters to his family and friends make clear, during the 1900s and 1910s Marcel Proust struggled to control his...
View ArticleOutside In: The Skin’s Role in Causing Food Allergies
By Dr. Peter Lio For many years, most patients—and doctors—have operated under the assumption that food allergies drive atopic dermatitis, not the other way around. That what you put in your mouth ends...
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest Allergist Sheds Light on History of the Specialty
Dr. Alfred William Frankland (Still active at the age of 101, Dr. Frankland gave an interview earlier this year that was published in BioMed Central. We are pleased to share some highlights.) You...
View ArticleImmunodeficiency—Exploring the Other Side of Allergy and Immunology
By Purvi Parikh, MD A forty-year-old man walked into our infectious disease clinic at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation on a cold, blustery day in 2010. The patient was undergoing routine visits in...
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