Allergen immunotherapy: A practice parameter second update

 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: L. Cox has consulting arrangements with Allergy Therapeutics, Genentech/Novartis, and Greer Laboratories and is on the speakers' bureau for Genentech/Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and AstraZeneca. R. Lockey has received grant support from Greer Laboratories; served as chairman of an advisory committee for ALK-Abelló for over 7 years; and has served as an expert witness for allergen immunotherapy death for both plaintiff and defendant. H. Nelson has consulting arrangements with Genentech/Novartis, Curalogic, GlaxoSmithKline, Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals, Dey Laboratories, Dynavax Technologies, Altana, and Schering-Plough; has received grant support from Dey Laboratories, IVAX, MediciNova, Wyeth, Sepracor, Genentech, Schering-Plough, Novartis, AstraZeneca, SkyPharma, Altana, and Roche; and is on the speakers' bureau for GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca. D. Bernstein has consulting arrangements with ALK-Abelló and has received grant support from Dynavax and ALK-Abelló. J. Blessing-Moore has received grant support from Novartis-Genentech and AstraZeneca and is on the speakers' bureau for Schering-Plough, Merck, Aventis, Novartis/Genentech, AstraZeneca. D. M. Lang has consulting arrangements with, has received grant support from, and is on the speakers' bureau for GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, AstraZeneca, Centocor, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough, Verus, and Dey. J. Oppenheimer has consulting arrangements with GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Sepracor, and Merck; has received grant support from AstraZeneca, Sepracor, and Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis/Genentech, and Schering-Plough; and is on the speakers' bureau for GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Sepracor, and Merck. J. M. Portnoy has consulting arrangements with Greer and GlaxoSmithKline; has received grant support from Clorox; and is on the speakers' bureau for Schering-Plough, Merck, Aventis, Secpracor, and AstraZeneca. S. A. Tilles has consulting arrangements with Genentech, Schering-Plough, and GlaxoSmithKline; has received grant support from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Medpoint, Apieron, and ALK-Abelló; and is on the speakers' bureau for GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Genentech, and Alcon. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

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PII: S0091-6749(07)01202-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.06.019

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