Please Explain: Allergies

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Today's Please Explain is nothing to sneeze at: we'll find out all about allergies. Some allergies are merely annoying, while others are fatal.

Leonard talks to Dr. Gillian Shepherd, a specialist in Allergy and Immunology. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and is an Attending at New York Presbyterian Hospital as well as a Consultant in Clinical Immunology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Also, Dr. David Resnick, an Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York-Presbyterian, New York City.

Links:
Web site for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
»www.aaaai.org

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
»www3.niaid.nih.gov

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