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Reviews and feature articles

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Current reviews of allergy and clinical immunology Chronic urticaria: Pathogenesis and treatment

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Allen P. Kaplan, MD, Charleston, SC

Continuing Medical Education examination: Chronic urticaria: Pathogenesis and treatment

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Molecular mechanisms in allergy and clinical immunology Turning off signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT): The negative regulation of STAT signaling

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Weiguo Chen, PhD, Michael O. Daines, MD, and Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD, Cincinnati, Ohio

Continuing Medical Education examination: Turning off signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT): The negative regulation of STAT signaling

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Asthma diagnosis and treatment Role of gender and hormone-related events on IgE, atopy, and eosinophils in the Epidemiological Study on the Genetics and Environment of Asthma, bronchial hyperresponsiveness and atopy

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Vale´rie Siroux, PhD, Florence Curt, MD, Marie-Pierre Oryszczyn, BSc, Jean Maccario, PhD, and Francine Kauffmann, MD, Villejuif and Grenoble, France

Characteristics of children with asthma who are enrolled in a Head Start program

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Perla A. Vargas, PhD, Pippa M. Simpson, PhD, J. Gary Wheeler, MD, Rajiv Goel, MS, Charles R. Feild, MD, John M. Tilford, PhD, and Stacie M. Jones, MD, Little Rock, Ark

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Online Repository material

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Theme issue CME examination article available online at www.mosby.com/jaci

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