Allergy/Immunology – Clinical Correlations

The Rising Tide of Food Allergy

October 20, 2016

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Peer Reviewed

Food allergies affect approximately 8% of children and 5% of adults, with a steadily increasing prevalence [1]. Risk factors for the development of food allergy are numerous and …

Barriers to Translating Evidence into Clinical Care: the Zoster Vaccine

December 13, 2013

Allergy/Immunology Class Act ID 7 min read

Zachary Elkin

Faculty Peer Reviewed

There are more than a million cases of herpes zoster (HZ) in the US annually [1-3]. The incidence of HZ, or shingles, has been rising in the US since the …

Can we teach the immune system to fight cancer?

November 1, 2013

Allergy/Immunology Clinical Questions Heme/Onc 8 min read

By Jenny Gartshteyn

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Since the start of vaccination – we’ve eradicated smallpox and polio, saved college kids from meningitis, averted flu epidemics, and decreased the incidence of HPV-related cervical cancer … but can we teach our immune systems to actively …

Barriers to Translating Evidence into Clinical Care: the Zoster Vaccine

October 10, 2013

Allergy/Immunology Class Act Geriatrics ID 7 min read

By Zachary Elkin

Faculty Peer Reviewed

There are more than a million cases of herpes zoster (HZ) in the US annually [1-3]. The incidence of HZ, or shingles, has been rising in the US since …

Should Physicians Offer The HPV Vaccine To Men And Boys?

March 23, 2012

Allergy/Immunology Clinical Questions ID 6 min read

By Kevin Burns

Faculty Peer Reviewed

On December 22, 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil; Merck, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) for prevention of anal cancer …

Does the BCG Vaccine Really Work?

March 14, 2012

Allergy/Immunology Class Act ID 5 min read

By Mitchell Kim

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an acid-fast bacillus, is the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), an infection that causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. A highly contagious infection, TB is spread by …

Understanding the Zoster Vaccine

July 13, 2011

Allergy/Immunology Class Act ID 5 min read

By Michael Cohen

Faculty Peer Reviewed

The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is well known to the majority of the population. In children, it strikes as varicella (chickenpox), characterized by pruritic, vesicular lesions in different stages of development dispersed over the body. A self-resolving …