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Allergy Notes
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Allergy, Asthma & Immunology News Updated Daily
- Added on: Dec 18th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: AllergyNotes
- Listed in: Medicine
- Tags: allergy immunology
Recent Posts
Cause of Eosinophilia: Colonoscopy Video Demonstrating a Moving Worm
From the NEJM:A 60-year-old woman presented with abdominal discomfort that had developed over the previous several weeks. Laboratory evaluation was notable for the white-cell count, which included 1.8% eosinophils. Colonoscopy demonstrated a worm, wh...
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin) and CD14 play a role in development of atopy
Atopy is highly prevalent and remains the biggest risk factor for asthma. Atopy has a heritable component but is not due to genetic factors alone. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and its bioactive moiety endotoxin are common to all gram-negative bacteria, a...
Allergy and Immunology News of the Day
Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.Role of sphingosine kinas...
Video: Acetaminophen may be linked to asthma
From Cleveland Clinic:"It is one of the most widely-used pain relievers around. But a new study finds acetaminophen may be associated with an increased risk of asthma or wheezing in both adults and children."This research is preliminary and no eviden...
Allergy and Immunology News of the Day
Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.Successful treatment of v...
How to predict who will "outgrow" food allergy to cow\'s milk: low specific IgE, high IgA and high IgG4
The development of tolerance in IgE-mediated allergies has been associated with:- lower cow's milk (CM)-specific IgE levels- increasing levels of specific IgG4 - increasing IgAThis study investigated if specific antibody responses to CM proteins diff...
