Dr. Robert A. Wood

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  Published on: 9/2/2008    Last Visited: 9/4/2008  

  "We cannot reiterate enough that the vaccines used today are extremely safe, but in a handful of children certain vaccine ingredients can trigger serious allergic reactions," said Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, whose research appears in the journal Pediatrics.
  
  Many of these children can still be vaccinated for other diseases, he said.
  
  The research comes amid recent outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough in the United States, all of which can be prevented by vaccines.
  
  Wood said that while very rare, occurring in the United States at a rate of about one to two per 1 million vaccinations, many pediatricians are likely to encounter allergic reactions simply because of the large volume of vaccines given, and they need to know how to proceed.
  
  "There is very little in the way of current recommendations, which is one of the reasons we felt this was an important project to take on," Wood said in a telephone interview.
  
  He said a true vaccine reaction will come on quickly, with 99 percent occurring within the first two hours of the shot.
  
  The most common signs of a reaction are hives, swelling, nasal congestion, difficulty breathing and occasionally vomiting.
  
  Children who have already had an allergic reaction or are at high risk should be tested by an allergist for reactions to the more common vaccine ingredients that trigger an allergic response.These include egg proteins, which are present in flu vaccines, or gelatin, which is used in several vaccines.
  
  Wood said in many cases there are alternative vaccines that do not include these allergens.
  
  "If a child had a reaction to the DPT (Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis) vaccine and was found to have an allergy to gelatin, it would be fairly simple to give them an alternative product," Wood said.
  
  "If it were someone with a very severe gelatin reaction to the MMR (Measles Mumps Rubella) or varicella (Chickenpox) vaccines, you would have a more difficult dilemma about whether you would vaccine them or not," he said.

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  "We may be dealing with a different kind of disease process than we did 20 years ago," Wood says.
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  Wood is a consultant for Dey Pharmaceuticals and has received support from Merck and Genentech.

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  Robert A. Wood, MDAssociate Professor of PediatricsJohn Hopkins Hospital

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  Robert A. Wood, a world-renowned expert in the treatment of peanut allergy, is named director of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.Wood, a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, plans to expand the division's food allergy program.

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  Published on: 9/3/2008    Last Visited: 9/3/2008  

  "We cannot reiterate enough that the vaccines used today are extremely safe, but in a handful of children certain vaccine ingredients can trigger serious allergic reactions," said Robert Wood, Co-author of the paper and Chief of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at Hopkins Children's.

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  Published on: 4/15/2008    Last Visited: 4/15/2008  

  We're talking about, about 50 percent of every food in the grocery story has a milk ingredient and every one of those needs to be avoided," says Pediatric Allergist Dr. Robert Wood.
  
  Plus, it's a strong allergy that's hard to shake.
  
  "We're not sure that this is really a different disease than it used to be, but we think that it is.We think that food allergy is not just more common, but it's more severe and more persistent than it was just 20 years ago," says Wood.
  
  Reagan took part in a study that may point the way to a treatment.
  
  "They gave her tiny, tiny bits of milk, tiny.And then they just started increasing it every week," says Wood.
  
  All the children who completed the year-long study made big improvements.
  
  "Right now she's taking about the equivalent of two tablespoons, which doesn't sound like a lot, but for her, it's enormous," says Wood.

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  This month, researcher Robert Wood wrote in IEEE Spectrum about what he believes was "the first flight of an insect-size robot."After almost a decade of research, Wood and his colleagues at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory are now creating small insect-like robots that will eventually be outfitted "with onboard sensors, flight controls, and batteries… to nimbly flit around obstacles and into places beyond human reach."Like cyborg insect researchers, Wood is DARPA-funded.

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  Published on: 4/23/2008    Last Visited: 8/27/2008  

  and Robert Wood, M.D. from John's Hopkins University answering "Why are my child's RAST levels rising?"

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  In the Clinic - Dr. Robert Wood, MD, Discusses the IgE Blood Allergy Test

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  This month, researcher Robert Wood wrote in IEEE Spectrum about what he believes was "the first flight of an insect-size robot."After almost a decade of research, Wood and his colleagues at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory are now creating small insect-like robots that will eventually be outfitted "with onboard sensors, flight controls, and batteries… to nimbly flit around obstacles and into places beyond human reach."Like cyborg insect researchers, Wood is DARPA-funded.

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