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The pathogenesis of asthma continues to be a major topic of interest to our authors with reviews and original papers on the role of viruses, mechanisms of...
Food allergy can have significant effects on morbidity and quality of life and can be costly in terms of medical visits and treatments.
Food allergy is mediated by a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors, potentially mediated by epigenetic mechanisms.
Our global health crisis and the pandemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is clearly rooted in complex modern societal and environmental changes, many of...
In Western countries, Asian children have higher food allergy risk than Caucasian children. The early-life environmental exposures for this discrepancy are unclear. We aimed to compare prevalence of food allergy and associated risk factors between Asian children in Singapore and Australia.
Showed for the first time that the presence of an egg-derived allergen in breast milk is associated with a reduced risk of egg allergy in children at 2.5 years of age
Australian infants who received whole-cell pertussis vaccines were less likely to be diagnosed with food allergy in childhood
This study highlights an unpredicted potential risk factor for the development of food allergy, that is, D pteronyssinus allergens in breast milk
Infant feeding practices in Australia have changed over the past decade; a large majority of infants are now fed peanut before 12 months of age
We conclude that genuine serious allergic reaction to propofol is rare and is not reliably predicted by a history of food allergy