• The NIAID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) will sponsor the study through the Vanderbilt Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU), one of nine VTEUs in the United States. (globenewswire.com)
  • This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), invites applications for investigator-initiated Resource-Related Research Projects (R24). (nih.gov)
  • A physician-investigator and public servant at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for almost six decades and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 38 years, Tony has dedicated his life to improving the lives of patients with a host of devastating infectious and immunologic diseases, including HIV, Ebola, Zika, the vasculitis syndromes, influenza, and COVID-19. (nursingcenter.com)
  • In 2012, Dr. Parikh moved to Yale, coincident with the receipt of a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded R21 proposal entitled "Innate immune responses in populations with differing susceptibility to malaria" conducted with Dr. Ouedraogo and IRSS-DRO. (yale.edu)
  • The study was conducted by investigators involved in one of the newly created Martin Delaney Collaboratories , which have been funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to pursue a cure for HIV infection. (typepad.com)
  • Additional information on the I4C: Combined Immunologic Approaches to Cure HIV-1 collaboratory can be gleaned from presentations at the recent NIAID Strategies for an HIV Cure meeting - see the webcast of day one , starting at the 5:49:45 mark. (typepad.com)
  • Leveraged pilot data to secure an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID). (medstarhealth.org)
  • The data from this project played a large role in securing an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID). (medstarhealth.org)
  • Herndon, VA - March 7, 2019 - NTT DATA Services Federal Government, a public sector subsidiary of NTT DATA Services, a recognized leader in global technology services, today announced the company won a five-year contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for up to $60 million. (nttdata.com)
  • NTT DATA will also provide NIAID a wide range of day-to-day general and specialized IT management services that will help advance the agency's mission of leading research to understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases. (nttdata.com)
  • Anthony Fauci has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). (sampleposts.com)
  • The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the largest institutes in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. (emory.edu)
  • The Drug Development Section (DDS) in the Office of Biodefense, Research Resources and Translational Research (OBRRTR), Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID), NIAID, seeks to recruit a health scientist administrator (program officer). (emory.edu)
  • Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., acting director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has named Jeanne M. Marrazzo, M.D., as director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). (bioengineer.org)
  • As NIAID director, Dr. Marrazzo will oversee NIAID's budget of $6.3 billion, which supports research to advance the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases. (bioengineer.org)
  • The NIAID research response to outbreaks of infectious diseases, from HIV to Ebola to COVID-19, has led to new therapies, vaccines, diagnostic tests and other technologies. (bioengineer.org)
  • Immunologist and AIDS researcher Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been awarded the 2007 George M. Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) for his outstanding contributions to academic medicine. (nih.gov)
  • Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause tuberculosis (TB) in human beings. (cdc.gov)
  • 1948. The NIAID-funded Influenza Genome Sequencing Project is a collaborative effort designed to increase the genome knowledge base of influenza and help researchers understand how flu viruses evolve, spread and cause disease. (wikidoc.org)
  • On Monday, the senator, who is also a trained physician, revealed a plan to split Fauci's role as the head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) into three roles run by separate directors. (massnews.com)
  • When we first met, I was a clinical nurse specialist in immunology and infectious diseases at the NIH. (nursingcenter.com)
  • As a lay observer who has studied many infectious diseases and their interaction with animal and human immune systems (and who has published and given several medical lectures and rounds), I think we are twisting the rules of infectious disease immunology to explain away a potentially bigger problem with syphilis in this population. (bio.net)
  • HealthMap delivers real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers. (smh.com)
  • The mission of DDS is to promote the development of therapeutics against biodefense pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, including pathogens of pandemic potential. (emory.edu)
  • Dr. Marrazzo is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and is board certified in infectious disease. (bioengineer.org)
  • It conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. (lookformedical.com)
  • Research goals include striving to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious , immunologic , and allergic diseases . (wikidoc.org)
  • According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year pertussis affects approximately 16 million people globally, accounting for nearly 200,000 deaths. (globenewswire.com)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • As of May 30, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting 971 cases of measles in the United States thus far in 2019. (mlo-online.com)
  • An institute of the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION which is responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions and for developing standards of safety and health . (lookformedical.com)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • Today it is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S. The NIH, comprising 27 separate institutes, centers and the Office of the Director, is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services . (wikidoc.org)
  • A joint project of the Massachusetts General Hospital Infectious Diseases Division and Microbiology Lab which presents images of interesting and instructive Infectious Disease cases to healthcare trainees and professionals for educational purposes. (smh.com)
  • The recent results of AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 076, a controlled clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with the National Institute of Health and Medical Research and the National Agency of Research on AIDS in France, indicate that zidovudine administered to a selected group of HIV-infected women and their infants can reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of HIV by approximately two-thirds. (cdc.gov)
  • BPZE1 was developed in the lab of Camille Locht, PhD, at the Institut Pasteur de Lille (IPL) and French National Institute of Health and Medical research (Inserm). (globenewswire.com)
  • Trans-NIH Shared Resource on Biomedical Engineering and Physical Science, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 2019 GRC will include disease-focused sessions from Innovation to Global Health Impact for tropical bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, emerging and re-merging TIEDs with an emphasis in new advances related to host-parasite relationships, novel technologies leading to global impact and lessons learned from the bench to the clinic. (grc.org)
  • Copyright © 1950 by the National Academy of Sciences Communicated by Linus Pauling, August 1, 1950 This work was aided by a research grant from the National Heart Institute, of the National Institutes of Health. (caltech.edu)
  • Following the patient's transfer to the National Institutes of Health, imaging showed left apical and lower lobe cavitary masses, left pleural mass and effusion, and a right upper lung cavity with nodule. (cdc.gov)
  • This lack of measurable immunity is echoed in fact sheets published by both the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the New York State Department of Health. (bio.net)
  • Food allergy (FA) is a serious public health concern that causes potentially-life threatening reactions in affected patients. (stanford.edu)
  • HealthMap brings together disparate data sources, including online news aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions and validated official reports, to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. (smh.com)
  • Created by epidemiologists at Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital and The Skoll Global Threats Fund, Flu Near You analyzes crowd sourced health reports and maps them to generate local and national views of influenza-like illness. (smh.com)
  • Two years ago, MedStar Health Research Institute chose to plan for the future of research at MedStar by launching the "New Investigator - Associate Giving Grant Fund" from donations to the Power to Heal campaign by MedStar associates. (medstarhealth.org)
  • The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides cancer screening services to women with low income and inadequate health insurance. (cdc.gov)
  • National institute for occupational safety and health u s. (lookformedical.com)
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S. (lookformedical.com)
  • A component of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with research , overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research . (lookformedical.com)
  • Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level. (lookformedical.com)
  • Component of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH . (lookformedical.com)
  • He also serves as one of the key advisors to the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on global HIV/AIDS issues, and on initiatives to bolster medical and public health preparedness against emerging infectious disease threats such as pandemic influenza. (nih.gov)
  • At the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, USA), from 2012 to 2019, she dedicated her research work to ultra-high-field 7T MRI-neuropathology correlations in multiple sclerosis, and related identification of novel imaging biomarkers of chronic inflammation (with special focus on microglia-mediated and leptomeningeal inflammation). (the-asci.org)
  • The National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical research. (wikidoc.org)
  • The National Institute of Aging and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are located in Baltimore, Maryland, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is in Research Triangle, North Carolina. (wikidoc.org)
  • It grew and was reorganized in 1930 by the Ransdell Act into the National Institute of Health (singular at the time). (wikidoc.org)
  • The senator accused Fauci of accusing him of lying to Congress by denying that the National Institutes of Health had paid for gain of function research at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology. (massnews.com)
  • Mosquitoborne diseases (e.g., malaria, dengue, and gue infection because of the immune changes that oc- chikungunya) are endemic to India and pose diagnostic cur during pregnancy ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Dengue infection during pregnancy antenatal surveillance for symptoms of mosquitoborne has been associated with poor maternal and infant diseases (fever only, fever with conjunctivitis, fever with outcomes, including preterm birth ( 6 ), hemorrhage, rash, or all 3 symptoms) within the previous 15 days. (cdc.gov)
  • BPZE1 is a next-generation live-attenuated pertussis vaccine designed to induce comprehensive and durable protection against B. pertussis infection (colonization) and disease (whooping cough). (globenewswire.com)
  • I mean to say that everything I've been able to learn in some 15 years, there is no immunologic memory in syphilis worth speaking of, and prior infection offers no protection whatsoever to subsequent challenge. (bio.net)
  • The immune response to syphilis - a disease which is rarely resolved without *early* treatment - wanes over time, and untreated infection leads to an irreversibly non-responsive state, which leads me to suspect that some sort of tolerogenic or immune-switching mechanism is operating in chronic disease, as suggested by the late Tom Fitzgerald. (bio.net)
  • Insofar as they acknowledge AIDS as a real disease, they attribute it to some combination of sexual behavior , recreational drugs , malnutrition , poor sanitation , haemophilia , or the effects of the medications used to treat HIV infection ( antiretrovirals ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Alveolar macrophages undergo productive infection and release infectious virions. (nih.gov)
  • We show here that Lactobacillus administration also limits infection of leukocytes in vivo and results in diminished release of infectious virions from alveolar macrophages. (nih.gov)
  • Even if vaccines do not prevent infection, a vaccine strategy that reduces the viral load and thus transmission and slows down the disease process would be epidemiologically useful and probably feasible. (aerzteblatt.de)
  • Lyme Disease Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted infection caused by Borrelia species, primarily by Borrelia burgdorferi and sometimes by Borrelia mayonii in the United States. (msdmanuals.com)
  • DDS collaborates extensively with OBRRTR, DMID, other NIH institutes, and other U.S. government agencies and non-government organizations. (emory.edu)
  • Nov. 4, 2023- The selected candidate will work on projects related to identifying mechanisms that lead to immune dysregulation , autoimmunity development and organ damage in systemic autoimmune diseases such as lupus. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might exacerbate these disparities as supply and demand for screening services are reduced. (cdc.gov)
  • The first immunotherapy for peanut allergy was approved by the FDA in 2020. (medscape.com)
  • Indicated for mitigation of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, that may occur with accidental exposure to peanut in patients with a confirmed diagnosis of peanut allergy. (medscape.com)
  • Sublingual immunotherapy for peanut allergy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial. (medscape.com)
  • Further, the young infant in day care-often because the mother is working (and therefore less likely to breastfeed)-may be exposed to communicable diseases more often than the infant cared for exclusively at home. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In this R01 proposal, we rigorously explore cfDNA as a biomarker of HIV disease states, and we investigate the molecular and immunologic mechanisms linking cfDNA to viral expression and rebound. (hhs.gov)
  • Hypersensitivity responses have been divided into several types objectives of this review are to discuss appropriate methods for based on the immunologic mechanisms involved. (cdc.gov)
  • The study we undertook has laid the foundation for unleashing the potential of ITx by understanding risk factors associated with immunologic graft loss at the intersection of the innate and adaptive immune systems and thereby providing insight into future targeted immunotherapies for the prevention/treatment of allograft rejection," said Dr. Kroemer. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Diseases caused by factors involved in one's employment . (lookformedical.com)
  • and translational research to develop vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to prevent and treat infectious, immune-mediated, and allergic diseases. (nih.gov)
  • During his time at the NIH, Tony advised seven U.S. presidents while running a productive research laboratory and a large, dynamic institute. (nursingcenter.com)
  • The 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Tropical Infectious Diseases will present cutting edge research on the most prevalent and medically important tropical infectious and emerging diseases (TIEDs). (grc.org)
  • The GRS will be an excellent opportunity for highly motivated junior investigators from disease endemic areas to develop collaborations with senior investigators and strengthen on-going research in their own countries. (grc.org)
  • This GRC will be held in conjunction with the "Tropical Infectious Diseases" Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). (grc.org)
  • Named "I4C: Combined Immunologic Approaches to Cure HIV-1," the collaboratory is co-led by Dr. Dan Barouch at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. John Mellors at the University of Pittsburgh, and Col. Nelson Michael at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program. (typepad.com)
  • It supports and conducts research , both basic and clinical, on the normal and diseases nervous system. (lookformedical.com)
  • Through basic and clinical biomedical research and training, it conducts and supports research into the nature of the aging process and diseases associated with the later stages of life. (lookformedical.com)
  • Dr. Marrazzo also has served as a mentor to trainees at all stages of professional development, including on NIH-funded training grants, and was the recipient of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association's Distinguished Career Award, the highest recognition of contributions to research and mentoring in the field. (bioengineer.org)
  • He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious and immunologic diseases. (nih.gov)
  • Over the years, her research has been supported by the National MS Society, the Conrad Hilton Foundation, the Roche Foundation, the Cariplo Foundation, Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica, and, the International Progressive MS Alliance. (the-asci.org)
  • The Institutes are responsible for 28%-about $28 billion-of the total biomedical research funding spent annually in the U.S., with most of the rest coming from industry. (wikidoc.org)
  • The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability , from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold . (wikidoc.org)
  • Conducts and supports research that helps prevent and treat eye diseases and other disorders of vision . (wikidoc.org)
  • NHGRI's Intramural Research Program develops and implements technology for understanding, diagnosing, and treating genetic diseases. (wikidoc.org)
  • Undertakes research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process, prevention of age-related diseases and disabilities, promotion of better quality of life for all older Americans. (wikidoc.org)
  • NIAMS supports research into causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases, the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research, and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. (wikidoc.org)
  • Under Paul's plan, the three smaller national research institutes would be the National Institute of Allergic Diseases, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Immunologic diseases - and each would have their own director. (massnews.com)
  • The goal of this study is to establish a birth cohort that collects prenatal and early life biosamples and environmental samples and rigorously phenotypes young children for food allergy and Atopic Dermatitis (AD) to identify prenatal and early life markers of high risk for food allergy and AD, as well as biological pathways (endotypes) that result in these conditions. (stanford.edu)
  • Prevalence of IgE-mediated food allergy among children with atopic dermatitis. (medscape.com)
  • Through this collaboration (IRSS-DRO-Yale University), investigators from IRSS-DRO spent several months at Yale for a laboratory training visit to learn techniques relating to immunologic assays relevant to the R21. (yale.edu)
  • Strongly preferred is previous experience with drug development for infectious diseases, including any of the following: target identification, lead optimization, chemistry manufacturing and controls (CMC), nonclinical studies, pharmacokinetics, drug substance and drug product release assays, good laboratory practice (GLP) toxicology studies, Phase 1 or Phase 2 clinical trials, and investigational new drug (IND) submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (emory.edu)
  • Clinical, Virologic, and Immunologic Evaluation of Symptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Rebound Following Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Treatment. (bvsalud.org)
  • Nirmatrelvir/ ritonavir , the first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ) protease inhibitor , reduces the risk of hospitalization and death by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but has been associated with symptomatic rebound after therapy completion. (bvsalud.org)
  • One study indicated that occupational asthma has surpassed tradi- tional dust disorders to become the most commonly reported occupational lung disease (Petsonk, 2002). (cdc.gov)
  • Geoff is professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine at Yale, and director of the Pulmonary Function Lab at the Yale Center for Asthma and Airway Disease. (medscape.com)
  • This has allowed us to study aspects of the disease that are underlying the inflammatory airway disease that is central to asthma. (medscape.com)
  • I think the challenge, of course, for us in chronic lung diseases, and particularly in asthma, is that we're dealing with a complex disease that's occurring at the intersection of the patient's genetic background, their environmental exposures, and time in their life. (medscape.com)
  • Syphilis is a hundred times as infectious as HIV, and happenstance treatment is rarely curative. (bio.net)
  • The idea I'm suggesting is that chronic active sexually-related infectious diseases, and especially syphilis, push the immune system against the normal effector cell function. (bio.net)
  • [ 14 ] This classification criteria allows the distinction of early and late-stage disease, as well as VKH from other panuveitides (sarcoidosis, Behcet disease, sympathetic ophthalmia, syphilis and tuberculosis). (medscape.com)
  • Complete VKH disease: Although involvement of all 3 systems is necessary for classification as complete disease, the neurologic and auditory manifestations often resolve before an ophthalmic examination. (medscape.com)
  • Patients with complete VKH disease also must have evidence of neurologic and auditory manifestations, as well as integumentary signs. (medscape.com)
  • Early manifestations of complete VKH disease include diffuse choroiditis, which may include serous retinal detachment or focal areas of subretinal fluid. (medscape.com)
  • Late manifestations of complete VKH disease include evidence of previous early manifestations of the disease, as outlined above, with ocular depigmentation and nummular chorioretinal scars, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) clumping and migration, or anterior uveitis. (medscape.com)
  • National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP). (smh.com)
  • Dr. Marrazzo is currently the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (bioengineer.org)
  • 3 Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (nih.gov)
  • This creates a lot of subtleties to the biology that's driving each patient's disease and has made it challenging for us to solve. (medscape.com)
  • Dr. Marrazzo also has chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Council, and the ABIM Infectious Disease Specialty Board. (bioengineer.org)
  • ILiAD Biotechnologies ( http://www.iliadbio.com ) is a privately held, clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to the prevention and treatment of human disease caused by Bordetella pertussis . (globenewswire.com)
  • The collaboration between the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de L'Ouest (IRSS-DRO) and Dr. Sunil Parikh started in 2004 through different projects on malaria conducted with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). (yale.edu)
  • I was stunned at how quickly her reaction took place and how ignorant I was to the whole world of food allergies, how prevalent they are, and how they have increased so dramatically in the last 10 years. (quotemaster.org)
  • In 1988, a panel of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences found that "the evidence that HIV causes AIDS is scientifically conclusive. (wikipedia.org)
  • National Academy of Sciences, Brookings Institution, etc. (lookformedical.com)
  • Because it is known that ST is immunoactive and can respond to infectious agents, the consequences of this ST-iRBC interaction should be investigated. (biomedcentral.com)
  • I think about the interaction between the environment where people have allergies, and then that people can get exposed to viruses, and people can get exposed to different irritants like smoke or pollution. (medscape.com)
  • Manipulation of the gut microbiota holds great promise for the treatment of diseases. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Estimating influenza disease burden from population-based surveillance data in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • With the recognition of AIDS nearly 26 years ago, he switched his laboratory's focus to the new disease, and since then has made numerous significant contributions to the understanding of AIDS pathogenesis. (nih.gov)
  • To help clarify the diagnostic features of VKH disease, the International Committee on Nomenclature established revised criteria for the diagnosis of VKH disease, published in 2001. (medscape.com)
  • Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is a multisystem autoimmune inflammatory disorder with ocular, auditory, skin, and neurologic involvement. (medscape.com)
  • VKH disease is considered to be a T-cell-mediated autoimmune response directed against melanocytes, although the exact antigens involved are incompletely understood. (medscape.com)
  • These histopathologic changes suggest an infectious or autoimmune basis for the disease. (medscape.com)
  • The possibility that VKH disease has an autoimmune pathogenesis is supported by the statistically significant frequency of HLA-DR4, an antigen commonly associated with other autoimmune diseases. (medscape.com)
  • VKH disease currently is considered to be a cell-mediated autoimmune disease directed against melanocytes. (medscape.com)
  • This is the first-ever NIH R01 grant for the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, and the project will run from 2017 to 2022. (medstarhealth.org)
  • Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. (sampleposts.com)
  • Dr. Fauci, a pioneer in the field of human immunoregulation, has received acclaim for developing effective therapies for the formerly fatal rheumatological diseases polyarteritis nodosa and Wegener's granulomatosis. (nih.gov)
  • The only proven medication therapy against a food allergy is strict elimination of the offending food allergen from the diet and avoidance of any contact with the food by ingestion, skin contact, inhalation, or injection. (medscape.com)
  • Instruct patients to discuss their food allergies with restaurant and food establishment personnel. (medscape.com)
  • Patients with food allergies should be advised to obtain and wear medical identification jewelry indicating their food allergies. (medscape.com)
  • The prevalence of food allergy in the United States (U.S.) has increased substantially and now affects 15 million patients:4-8% of children (6 million children, 30% with multiple food allergies) and about 9% of adults. (stanford.edu)
  • All evidence suggests that this heightened susceptibility is due to differences in immunologic responses of the patient, clearly understood in overtly immunodeficient persons (i.e., those with AIDS) but not understood for the large majority of otherwise healthy patients with DCM. (hhs.gov)
  • VKH disease occurs more commonly in patients with a genetic predisposition to the disease, including those from Asian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic, and Native American populations. (medscape.com)
  • Several human leukocyte antigen (HLA) associations have been found in patients with VKH disease, including HLA-DR4, HLA-DR53, and HLA-DQ4. (medscape.com)
  • Despite differences in their patients, the manifestations appeared to represent a spectrum of disease, and several authors suggested that the disorder should be termed Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • Incomplete VKH disease: Patients with incomplete VKH disease have either neurologic and auditory manifestations or integumentary signs, but not both. (medscape.com)
  • Probable VKH disease: Patients with probable VKH disease include those with isolated ocular disease. (medscape.com)
  • Food allergy: a practice parameter update-2014. (medscape.com)