As I attended the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting this month in ‘warmer’ Orlando, I realized that it has been 25 years of my going to their national meetings. The first one I went to was in March 1993 during my fellowship training. The meeting that year was in Chicago—the last […]
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Inhaled Steroids and The Effect on Adult Height: Is There Cause for Concern
Inhaled corticosteroids, known commonly and for the rest of this discussion as ‘inhaled steroids,’ have been the preferred daily treatment since the 1980s to prevent asthma symptoms for those who would otherwise have asthma more than two days every week. The basis for creating this class of medication in the 1970s was to […]
Biologics For Treating Asthma: What Are They And What’s The Logic For Using Them?
Sometimes we are inclined to believe that history repeats itself, as highlighted by the famous remark by Santayana about not learning from the mistakes of the past. That cannot be said overall about the history of science —it is clearly an upward progression when the advances in DNA technology are considered. And, allergists have witnessed […]