Allergy and Immunology News

Spring and summer are not the only seasons that bring misery to those with allergies.

Dr. Raana S. Akbar, a Saginaw Township allergist who helped to bring harmony and compassion to Saginaw, died Thursday after a long fight with cancer.

Biodegradable plastics have played a leading role in the first successful elimination of tumors in mammals.

Westlake Dermatology, Central Texasa leading provider medical dermatology, cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery, announced today the opening of its Lakeway offices located at 401 Ranch Road 620.

Image: FlickrCreativeCommons/Julo According to ORI's statement, released this fall, Zhong-Bin Deng, then a postdoc at the Medical College of Georgia, manipulated data to show that the autoimmune regulator gene controls the growth and maturation of invariant natural killer T cells, or iNKT.

A 69-year-old female presented in December 2007 with a 5-month history of proximal muscle weakness, pain, fatigue and difficulty in walking and swallowing.

Washington, November 26 : Scientists have come up with a tiny skin implant that when introduced into the body with careful engineering can destroy cancerous tumours.

The technology, which the researchers have already licensed to a biotechnology company, is being developed for clinical trials of melanoma.

Nov. 23, 2009 - UT Southwestern Medical Center is among 10 institutions selected by the National Institutes of Health to share $56 million over five years as part of the Inner City Asthma Consortium .

When introducing your newborn to new foods, be sure to look out for signs of food allergies, said an expert at Baylor College of Medicine.

Eli E. Sercarz, who explored the mechanisms of autoimmunity and developed key concepts about how the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, died of renal cell cancer Nov.

The following was excerpted from an obituary submitted by Rabyn Blake and written by his UCLAcolleagues Kamal Moudgil, M.D. and Emanual Maverakis, M.D. Eli Sercarz, Professor Emeritus of Immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles, the current Head of the Division of Immune Regulation at the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, ...

A pediatric immunologist at The Childrena s Hospital of Philadelphia has received a prestigious annual award from the American Philosophical Society, an organization founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin.

Pfizer Inc.'s new childhood vaccine Prevnar 13 won approval from a panel of experts Wednesday as an immunologist reported its potential benefits down the road in preventing deaths from the H1N1 virus.

Elsevier is pleased to announce that beginning with Volume 104 it will assume publication of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology , the official journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology .

The swine flu virus that's sweeping across the United States isn't a total stranger to your immune system, a new study shows -- a finding that should ease the most drastic worries about the lethality of the pandemic.