JACI: In Practice Editor Robert Zeiger describes the June issue, the theme of which is “Clinical Impact of Environmental Allergens.” Theme topics covered include indoor allergen Interventions in homes and schools, indoor and outdoor fungal allergens, thunderstorm asthma, and climate change and allergens. Dr. Zeiger then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Prevention of Allergy, Anaphylaxis, Artificial Intelligence, Asthma, Eosinophilic Disord...
Jun 09, 2025•26 min
JACI: In Practice Editor David Khan describes the May issue, the theme of which is “Drug Allergy”. Theme topics covered include types of drug reactions, such as serum sickness and DRESS, and allergy to specific drugs and drug classes such as radiocontrast media, chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, and insulin. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Drug Allergy, Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, Asthma, Cough, Dermatitis, Food A...
May 05, 2025•21 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Scott Sicherer describes the April issue, the theme of which is “Food Allergy.” Theme topics covered include food anaphylaxis management; immunotherapy and omalizumab treatment of food allergy; cow’s milk allergy; social determinants and quality of life in food allergy management; peer influence, social pressure, and food allergy; and food allergy, nutrition, psychology, and health. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which ar...
Apr 07, 2025•13 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Robert Zeiger describes the March issue, the theme of which is “Cough”. Theme topics covered include the clinical approach to chronic cough, cough reflex hypersensitivity as a key treatable trait, nonpharmacological approaches to chronic cough, and cough-variant asthma. Dr. Zeiger then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Cough, Angioedema, Asthma, Drug Allergy, Food Allergy, Inborn Errors of Immunity, Mast Cell Diseas...
Mar 11, 2025•26 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Dave Khan describes the February issue, the theme of which is “Climate Change and the Practice of Allergy/Immunology”. Theme topics covered include an overview of climate changes and its effects on health, the effect of climate change on allergen and irritant exposure, urban greening and pollen allergy, the effect of wildfires on asthma and allergies, and mold remediation in homes after flooding. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue...
Feb 05, 2025•20 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Robert Zeiger describes the January issue, the theme of which is “Insect Sting Allergy”. Theme topics covered include venom component allergen IgE measurement, risk factors for severe sting reactions and side effects during venom immunotherapy, stinging ant anaphylaxis, mast cell disorders and hymenoptera venom-triggered anaphylaxis, large local reaction to insect stings, and shared decision making in the diagnosis and management of insect sting allergy. Dr. Zeiger then ...
Jan 07, 2025•25 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Michael Schatz describes the December issue, the theme of which is “Adherence Considerations in Allergy/Immunology.” The theme review articles comprehensively cover many aspects of adherence in patients with allergic and immunologic diseases, including factors affecting adherence, strategies for improvement, special considerations in specific groups, and the use of technology to improve adherence. Dr. Schatz then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the is...
Dec 05, 2024•22 min
JACI: In Practice Editor David Khan describes the November issue, the theme of which is Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease (NSAID-ERD). Theme topics covered include the burden, natural history, clinical characteristics, inflammatory heterogeneity, and biologic and non-biologic treatment of NSAID-ERD. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Asthma, Dermatitis, Drug Allergy, Eosinophilic Disorders, Foo...
Nov 06, 2024•23 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Michael describes the October 2024 issue, the theme of which is “Patient-Reported Outcomes and Patient-Centeredness in Allergy/Immunology”. Theme topics covered include general aspects of patient-reported outcome measures, specific patient-reported outcomes measures for asthma and other allergic diseases, patient satisfaction, patient-centered practice guidelines, and shared decision making. Dr. Schatz then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, w...
Oct 01, 2024•19 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Scott Sicherer describes the September issue, the theme of which is “Contact Dermatitis.” Theme topics covered include various aspects of the diagnosis and management of cutaneous contact dermatitis; contact dermatitis from biomedical devices, implants, and metals; and delayed skin testing for systemic medications. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Drug Allergy, Eosinophilic Di...
Aug 29, 2024•18 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Robert Zeiger describes the August issue, the theme of which is “Occupational Respiratory Diseases”. Theme topics covered include performing an occupational history, respiratory diseases associated with organic dust exposure, airway diseases related to the use of cleaning agents, respiratory diseases associated with wildfire exposure, and occupation and COVID-19. Dr. Zeiger then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Occ...
Aug 01, 2024•28 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Scott Sicherer describes the July issue, the theme of which is “Prevention of Allergy and Asthma,”. Theme topics covered include prevention of food allergy, atopic dermatitis, and asthma. The issue also contains an American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Work Group Report on the subject of “The Impact of Prior Authorization on Clinical Practice and Patient Care Outcomes”. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are...
Jul 05, 2024•18 min
JACI: In Practice Editor David Khan describes the June issue, the theme of which is “Allergic and Nonallergic Rhinitis.” Theme topics covered include allergic rhinitis, including immunotherapy and local allergic rhinitis; non-allergic rhinopathy; the impact of social determinants of health and climate change on chronic rhinitis; and evaluation of patients presenting with nasal congestion or post nasal drip. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on...
Jun 06, 2024•22 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Dave Khan describes the May issue, the theme of which is “Drug Allergy.” Theme topics covered include defining and managing low-risk drug allergy labels, non-IgE mediated immediate drug hypersensitivity reactions, drug allergy mimics, and cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Drug Allergy, Asthma, Food Allergy, Mast Cell Disorders, Urtic...
May 03, 2024•24 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Michael Schatz describes the April issue, the theme of which is “Newer Approaches to Asthma Management”. Theme topics covered include phenotyping severe asthma in the current era of biologics, management of extrapulmonary treatable traits, downstream impacts of systemic inflammation in patients with asthma, the relationship to asthma and therapeutic potential of alterations in the respiratory and gut microbiome, the new paradigm of inhaled corticosteroid use as part of r...
Apr 05, 2024•20 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Scott Sicherer describes the March issue, the theme of which is “Food Allergy”. Theme topics covered include food allergy immunotherapy, biologics in the treatment of food allergy, addressing health equity in food allergy, sesame allergy, and pollen food allergy syndrome to nuts. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Food Allergy, Asthma, Drug Allergy, Eosinophilic Disorders, Hereditary Angioedema, Imm...
Mar 07, 2024•18 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Michael Schatz describes the February issue, the theme of which is “Social Determinants of Health in Allergy/Immunology”. Theme topics covered include pharmacoequity in access to medications for allergic and immunologic disease; the relationships of social determinants of health and health disparities to inborn errors of immunity, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, food allergy, and asthma; and rural health disparities in allergy/immunology. Dr. S...
Feb 07, 2024•19 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Robert Zeiger describes the January issue, the theme of which is “Inhalant Allergen Immunotherapy”. Theme topics covered include the art of immunotherapy, allergen immunotherapy for asthma, allergen immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis, impact of allergen immunotherapy on the progression of airway disease, and mechanisms and predictive biomarkers of allergen immunotherapy. Dr. Zeiger then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topi...
Jan 05, 2024•26 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Michael Schatz describes the December 2023 issue, the theme of which is “Women’s Health in Allergy/Immunology”. Theme topics covered include an in-depth exploration of female physicians in allergy; a summary of asthma and rhinitis across the lifespan of women; the management of asthma during pregnancy; the interrelationships among COVID-19, pregnancy, and asthma and other allergic conditions; progestogen hypersensitivity; and the unique aspects of drug allergy in women. ...
Dec 01, 2023•22 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Dave Khan describes the November issue, the theme of which is “COVID-19 and Allergy/Immunology”. Theme topics covered include the impact of COVID-19 on common allergic diseases, COVID-19 vaccine reactions, COVID-19 treatments, long COVID, social determinants of health and COVID-19, social media and COVID-19, physician and patient wellness during the pandemic, and preparing the allergist/immunologist for the next pandemic. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Orig...
Nov 01, 2023•25 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Robert Zeiger describes the October issue, the theme of which is “Newer Diagnostic Methods in Allergy”. Theme topics covered include assessing indoor allergen exposures; laboratory tests in the diagnosis of food, venom, and drug allergies; epitope-based IgE assays and their role in the diagnosis of food allergies; chip-based assays in the diagnosis of allergic diseases; the basophil activation test; the normal range of baseline tryptase; and specific IgE cut-off levels. ...
Oct 05, 2023•33 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Michael Schatz describes the September issue, the theme of which is “Biologics”. Theme topics covered include the use of biologics for asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, eosinophilic esophagitis, and hypereosinophilic syndromes. Dr. Schatz then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Biologics, Asthma, Dermatitis, Drug Allergy, Eosinophilic Disorders, Food Allergy, Immunodeficiency, Immunotherapy, Insect St...
Sep 05, 2023•31 min
August 2023 Podcast Description JACI: In Practice Editor Dave Khan describes the August issue, the theme of which is “Focus on Urticaria and Angioedema”. Theme topics covered include masqueraders and misdiagnoses, genetic variants and biomarkers, autoreactivity and autoimmunity, treatment beyond antihistamines and biologics, cold urticaria, angioedema with normal complement studies, and hereditary angioedema. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are ...
Aug 11, 2023•28 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Scott Sicherer describes the July issue, the theme of which is “Anaphylaxis”. Theme topics covered include the disease spectrum of anaphylaxis disorders, extrinsic and intrinsic modulators, vaccine-related allergy and anaphylaxis, venom anaphylaxis, refractory anaphylaxis, and novel therapies. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Drug Allergy, and Food Allergy.
Jul 03, 2023•19 min
JACI: In Practice Deputy Editor Robert Zeiger describes the June issue, the theme of which is “Immunodeficiency”. Theme topics include the genetics, diagnosis, management, and complications of various types of inborn errors of immunity and related disorders. Dr. Zeiger then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Immunodeficiency, Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, Asthma, Drug Allergy, and Food Allergy.
Jun 21, 2023•35 min
JACI: In Practice Editor Scott Sicherer describes the May issue, the theme of which is “Advances in Atopic Dermatitis”. Theme topics covered include Targeting Skin Barrier Function, A Comparison of Topical Corticosteroids and Topical Calcineurin Inhibitors, Biologic Versus Small Molecule Therapy, Skin Antiseptics, and Managing Atopic Dermatitis in Patients With Skin of Color. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Atopic Dermat...
May 02, 2023•16 min
JACI: In Practice Deputy Editor Scott Sicherer describes the April issue, the theme of which is “Difficult Decisions in Food Allergy”. Theme topics covered include precautionary allergen labeling, oral food challenges, immunotherapy, and epinephrine treatment. Dr. Sicherer then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Food Allergy, Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Drug Allergy, Hereditary Angioedema, Immunodeficiency, Rhinitis, and Urticaria.
Apr 07, 2023•22 min
JACI: In Practice Editor-in-Chief Michael Schatz describes the March 2023 issue, the theme of which is “Hot Topics in Asthma”. Theme topics covered include health disparities in asthma, the role of lung function in the development of childhood asthma, mechanistic studies that help to define clinical asthma phenotypes and endotypes in children, and factors to consider when prescribing biologics to children with asthma. In addition, three new asthma management paradigms are discussed: a proactive ...
Mar 07, 2023•20 min
JACI: In Practice Associate Editor David Khan describes the February 2023 issue, the theme of which is “Drug Allergy”. Theme topics covered include Practice Parameter updates; placebo, nocebo and patient reported outcome measures in drug allergy; perioperative hypersensitivity; and various aspects of penicillin allergy. Dr. Khan then presents the Highlights of the Original Articles in the issue, which are on the topics of Drug Allergy, Asthma, Food Allergy, Mast Cell Disorders, Rhinitis and Sinu...
Feb 07, 2023•25 min
JACI: In Practice Editor-in-Chief Michael Schatz describes the January issue, which is a special issue celebrating the first 10 years of publication of the Journal, 2013-2022. The issue contains articles describing the most important advances of the past decade in the spectrum of illnesses covered in the Journal pages over the past 10 years. The conditions covered in these state-of-the-art reviews include asthma (diagnosis, and management in children and adults), allergic and non-allergic rhinit...
Jan 05, 2023•21 min
