Our immune systems are--like every organ system in our body--subject to the aging process. The term used in the medical literature to describe these age-related changes is immunosenescence. Perhaps no time is more important in understanding this than the past 14 months when the responses to (a) being infected with the COVID-19...
For the past three years, I have written about updates in peanut desensitization during the month of July. However, I have received questions about the risks of COVID-19 for those with asthma over the past month. So, this month’s blog will --for the 3rd month this year—be devoted to the medical condition affecting all of us in so many...
Tests that are considered proven for diagnosing food allergy have been skin tests, blood tests that look for IgE (the class of antibody associated with allergic diseases) and, if necessary, an office ingestion challenge. When the skin tests and blood tests are normal, the scientific conventional approach is to call a recurrent specific...
We are more conscious about protecting our health from infections since early March. Some of us may now be thinking of preventing other medical conditions. Is direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing something we should get to see if we will develop a chronic disease? Does direct-to-consumer genetic testing give results that can...
I had planned to write this month about the latest research in biologic therapy for allergic diseases—the theme of this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology during March 13th-March 16th in Philadelphia. That plan changed at 4:10pm on Sunday March 8th when I received an e-mail announcing that...
Unless someone has lived under the proverbial rock in the past month and does not obtain current event information, or is not even seeing the financial markets’ numbers from this past week, we are all aware in the USA of the novel coronavirus (named on February 11th as COVID-19) outbreak that began in China about 2 months ago. We are...