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LATEST WAO POSITION PAPER
Sublingual Immunotherapy: World Allergy Organization Position Paper 2009. World Allergy Organization Journal. 2009;2(11):223-281. Full Text

American Academy of Allergy and Immunology (AAAAI)

2010 PRIMER ON ALLERGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 125, Issue 2, Supplement 2

Editors:
William T. Shearer and
Donald Y.M. Leung

6th Edition now available Online-only
Free, open access

Link to the 2010 Primer


WAO is a Partner of the
Year of the Lung




Deadline for applications
is June 30, 2011.
For more information, or to submit an application,
write to WAOHLAward@alk-abello.com

 

International Scientific Conference, Dubai, 6-8 December 2010
WAO Programs
gloria


To learn more about GLORIA and to bring a GLORIA program to your society, click here.

emerging societies program

The World Allergy Organization offers advice on initiating and developing professional allergy societies throughout the world with the Emerging Societies Program. For more information, click here.

world allergy forum


The World Allergy Forum brings cutting edge programs to major allergy meetings throughout the world. To find out more, click here.

wao conference - dubai

To Register for WISC, click here.

To Submit an Abstract, click here

To view the Preliminary Scientific Program, click here.

Drug Allergy CME Module

Antibiotic Allergy in Pregnancy
A WAO Online Learning Module with CME
www.worldallergy.org/modules/course/view.php?id=5
Access here

Small Airways Working Group

Small Airways Working Group
A global platform for ease-of-access to the most relevant scientific, clinical and educational resources on small airway diseases.
Learn more.

Global Resources in AllergyEmerging Societies ProgramWorld Allergy ForumScientific ConferencesDrug Allergy CME ModuleSmall Airways Working Group

WAO Journal

World Allergy Organization Journal
WAO Members, sign-in here.


August 2010, Volume 3, Issue 8
ISSN: 1939-4551

Contents

INVITED REVIEW

Staphylococcus aureas and Chronic Airway Disease
Lara Derycke; Claudina Pérez-Novo; Koen Van Crombruggen; Marie-Noëlle Corriveau; and Claus Bachert
Belgium

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

IgE Reactivity to Common Cypress (C. sempervirens) Pollen Extracts: Evidence for Novel Allergens
Youcef Shahali; Jean-Pierre Sutra; Gabriel Peltre; Denis Charpin; Hélène Sénéchal; and Pascal Poncet
France

SYMPOSIUM REPORT SUPPLEMENT

May We Strengthen the Human Natural Defenses with Bacterial Lysates?
Elisa Villa; Valentina Garelli; Fulvio Braido; Giovanni Melioli; and Giorgio Walter Canonica
Italy

To access full articles click here
To view the WAO Journal Editorial Board roster click here


WAO Website Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief: Juan Carlos Ivancevich (Argentina)

Regional Assistant Editors:
Stuart Friedman, USA; Cassim Motala, South Africa; Bernard Thong, Singapore

Editors at Large:

Connie H. Katelaris, Australia; Bob Q. Lanier, USA; Cassim Motala, South Africa; Ruby Pawankar, Japan

Translators: Anna Sala Cunill (Spanish), Dirceu Sole, Carlos Nunes (Portuguese), Yehia El Gamal (Arabic), Hirohisa Saito (Japanese), Yin Jia, Gu Jian Qing, Wen Li Ping, Guan Kai (Chinese), Diana Deleanu (Polish), Krysztof Kowal (Polish), Georgy Gudima (Russian), Liliane Gendreau-Reid (French), Kamal Maurice Hanna (French)

For the full board listing, click here.

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WAO's mission: To be a global resource and advocate in the field of allergy, advancing excellence in clinical care through education, research and training as a world-wide alliance of allergy and clinical immunology societies.


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XXII World Allergy Congress

NEW CASE REVIEW!

Cough and Failure to Thrive
A WAO Interactive Case Review
By Dennis Kim, MD; Jennifer Kim, MD; and Richard F. Lockey, MD

Dennis KimJennifer KimRichard Lockey

Edited by Bob Q. Lanier, MD

Small Airways Working Group

Small Airways Working Group Lecture

Ignacio AnsoteguiWAO's Small Airways Diseases Working Group project will host a lecture on "Small Airways and their importance in asthma," presented by Dr. Ignacio Ansotegui (WAO Board Member).

XVI Congress of the Latin American Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
13-16 November 2010
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

WAO Journal Launches Podcasts

Lanny J. RosenwasserThe first Chief Editor interviews were conducted by Lanny J. Rosenwasser, MD, Editor-in-Chief, with authors Michael Kaliner MD, and William Calhoun, MD, regarding "Highlights of the Asthma Summit 2009: Beyond the Guidelines" (Vol. 3, Issue 2 Feb. 2010).

Go to WAO Journal podcasts

WAO Allergy Quiz
Check your AQ (Allergy Quotient)

This Allergy Quiz was contributed by Nikos Papadopoulos and Heidi Makrinioti.

Which of the following wheezing phenotypes seems to be more likely to persist into childhood?





Editor: Glenis Scadding, MD

NEW WAO EDUCATION UPDATES

Now Available Online!
WAO Drug Allergy
Online Learning & CME

Drug Allergy Module

Obtain CME credit by completing the new interactive educational module on antibiotic allergy in pregnancy, authored by Prof. Mario Sánchez-Borges of the WAO Drug Allergy Special Committee.

To access the program register at: http://www.worldallergy.org/modules/

 

CME available online in the WAO and AAAAI Immunology Series of online lectures!

David Chaplin

Overview
David Chaplin

Jordan Orange

T Cell Immunity
and Innate Cellular Immunity
Jordan Orange

Michael Frank

Innate Humoral Immunity
Michael Frank

Bruce Bochner

Cells of the Allergic Response
Bruce Bochner

Lanny Rosenwasser

Cytokines and their Receptors
Lanny Rosenwasser

Mark Ballow

B-Cell
Immunity

Mark Ballow

John Steinke

Chemokines and their Receptors
John Steinke

Francisco Bonilla

Defects of B Cell Immunity
Francisco Bonilla

Thomas Fleisher

Defects of T Cell Immunity
Thomas Fleisher