Allergy

First Prize, Respiratory Medicine, BMA Awards 2007 and Highly Commended at 2012 BMA awards in Medicine Category.


This comprehensive, clinically oriented full-colour resource offers you a wealth of detailed information on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of allergic diseases – from asthma to urticaria. Thoroughly updated to reflect today’s knowledge, this third edition features all of the latest developments in allergy and immunology. Plus, a consistent, logical organisation puts vital information at your fingertips.

• Features abundant algorithms that provide at-a-glance assistance in identifying the allergic conditions you encounter in practice.
  
• Offers in-depth information in a chapter dedicated entirely to asthma.
  
• Provides valuable treatment protocols that assist you in prescribing appropriate therapies and effectively managing patients' allergies.
  
• Includes extensive references that point the way to the key works in the literature.

• Features a new chapter on pediatric allergy, presenting detailed information on this increasingly common condition.
  
• Presents new authors for 25% of the chapters with 50% of the chapters completely revised and remaining chapters updated to include the most recent knowledge.
  
• Includes a BONUS CD-ROM containing all of the superb illustrations from the book downloadable into PowerPoint.
  
• And much more.

Stephen T. Holgate, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, MRC, Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, Southapmton General Hospital School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Martin K. Church, MPHARM, PhD, DSc, Professor of Experimental Immunopharmacology, Dermatopharmacology Group, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK; and Lawrence M. Lichtenstein, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, MD