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Is European legislation killing allergy diagnostics?

Is European legislation killing allergy diagnostics? EDITORIAL URRENT Is European legislation killing allergy diagnostics? PINION a b Torsten Zuberbier and Thomas Werfel The current issue of Current Opinion in Allergy and diagnostic purposes. Under the current legislation Clinical Immunology shows once more how remark- in the strict interpretation, for example, a food item, able scientific progress in the field of allergy is. This which needs to be tested as native allergen in the is the sixth special issue we have jointly edited as prick test, brought along by the patient becomes a guest editors with a special highlight on the field of drug as soon as it is used for the skin test. The same skin allergy. holds true as soon as it is used in the provocation The articles selected show that considerable test. Although for these truly patient-specific test scientific progress has been made again in the past substances, in many countries exception rules are year, despite a still low funding of research in allergy made, for example, in Germany doctors only have to compared to many other areas in medicine. register that they perform these tests with the On the contrary, progress has been made in the relevant authorities, the situation becomes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology Wolters Kluwer Health

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EDITORIAL URRENT Is European legislation killing allergy diagnostics? PINION a b Torsten Zuberbier and Thomas Werfel The current issue of Current Opinion in Allergy and diagnostic purposes. Under the current legislation Clinical Immunology shows once more how remark- in the strict interpretation, for example, a food item, able scientific progress in the field of allergy is. This which needs to be tested as native allergen in the is the sixth special issue we have jointly edited as prick test, brought along by the patient becomes a guest editors with a special highlight on the field of drug as soon as it is used for the skin test. The same skin allergy. holds true as soon as it is used in the provocation The articles selected show that considerable test. Although for these truly patient-specific test scientific progress has been made again in the past substances, in many countries exception rules are year, despite a still low funding of research in allergy made, for example, in Germany doctors only have to compared to many other areas in medicine. register that they perform these tests with the On the contrary, progress has been made in the relevant authorities, the situation becomes

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Published: Oct 1, 2012

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