Immunising against food allergy

Monday, 19 October 2009 13:25

The magazine ScienceNews has published an extensive feature on food allergy and the growing popularity of oral immunization therapy as a means to overcome it. The article re-visits many studies on the topic that have been published in peer-reviewed journals in the past few years, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Nature Medicine.

Leaders in the field, including Scott Sicherer of Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Jaffe Food Allergy Institute in New York City, are quoted in the article, providing current opinions on novel therapies for food allergy such as vaccines and gene therapy.  The full article is available on the ScienceNews website: www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/46756/title/Little_by_Little