May 26th, 2010 | 
Author: University of Virginia Professor of Medicine Thomas Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, has achieved the inimitable distinction of conscious elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his research into the causes of asthma and allergic disease. The Royal Society is the United Kingdom’s National Academy of Science and the oldest scientific academy in the nature.
Only a small sum up of Fellows are physicians, and Dr. Platts-Mills is the first ever allergist to be elected. His discrimination was based on more than 30 years of study on the role that dust atom, cat and cockroach allergens flutter in the progressive growth of allergic disease and asthma. His modern toil, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008, looked at patients who developed a life threatening allergic rebound, called anaphylaxis, during management on the side of cancer. In February 2009, he led a consideration on anaphylactic reactions that occurred several hours after corroding beef, swine-flesh or lamb. Both of these discoveries are related to IgE antibodies to a complex mammalian sugar that appear to be induced by tick bites. This represents a paradigm shift in the understanding of allergic reactions, including those to food.
Source: University of Virginia Health System
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