Be sure to grab the latest issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and fill up your knowledge of all things allergy and immunology. The current issue focuses on the effect of pollution on allergy. From the Daliesque cover image to the insightful reviews and perspectives, it provides a crucial update on current thoughts about how pollution is affecting the patients we treat every day.
The CME Review this month focuses on how air pollution affects asthma, while a subsequent review explores how pollutants affect the epithelial barrier, and how dysfunction of the epithelial barrier impacts allergic diseases. Wondering what you can do to mitigate this problem? A very thoughtful perspective gives concrete suggestions on how allergist/immunologists can work to limit the effects of pollution on their patients with allergic disease. And continuing with the theme, this month’s Marginal Zone assesses your knowledge of pollution – it’s always good to take a test that makes you laugh at the same time!
Original articles focus on a direct comparison of biologics for asthma, as well as the effectiveness of dupilumab in real-world situations and across the seasons. This month we have an article that details the success of a community partnership to reduce the impact of high-risk asthma. Other articles focus on chronic cough, novel methods of specific IgE detection, treatment of hereditary angioedema, penicillin delabeling efforts on inpatients, and anaphylaxis in the emergency department.
Letters this month look at stock inhalers in schools, whether there are health disparities in hospital-initiated care for asthma, the role of sleep evaluations in chronic rhinosinusitis, occupational hops allergy, and what emergency department physicians perceive as appropriate anaphylaxis observation times. I think you will agree that April’s issue – as always – is chock full of impactful science that will change and refine the way you practice allergy and immunology.
This month, we finish our series of articles celebrating the 80th anniversary of Annals with a discussion of immunotherapy for food allergy that compares the 1940s with today. While this may be our last editorial on Annals’ 80th birthday, we continue to celebrate the cutting-edge translational and clinical science that makes up your journal – Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology! As always, if you have any comments, please consider sending correspondence to Annals (email us at annals@ACAAI.org). We are always excited to hear how Annals has helped you improve the lives of your patients!
Mitchell H. Grayson, MD, FACAAI
Editor-in-Chief
