Editorial Perspectives

on chronic urticaria/angioedema and its treatment Within the pages of this issue of the Proceedingsare featured five review articles, seven original research papers, a “Clinical Pearls and Pitfalls “ paper and a “Patient-Oriented Problem Solving (POPS)” case report, all focusing on various aspects of allergy and respiratory disease. The lead review articles rep-resent the proceedings of a chronic urticaria sympo-sium presented at the Eastern Allergy Conference in June, 2013. In a complimentary pair of papers Weldon1 and Lang 2 provide an update on chronic urticaria, its im-pact on patient quality of life (QOL), and evidence based diagnostic evaluation and treatment. Weldon1 reviews the utility of QOL questionnaires which serve to document the benefit attributed to therapies. This i