The HCPLive Allergy condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and insights on allergic and inflammatory diseases. This page consists of interviews, articles, podcasts, and videos on the research, treatment and development of therapies for food and seasonal allergies, as well as allergic asthma and related conditions.
March 18th 2024
In an announcement by Aquestive Therapeutics, these new findings demonstrated the potential of this orally-administered epinephrine treatment.
Community Practice Connections™: Preparing for an Expanded Armamentarium for Food Allergy
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Advances In: Integrating New Treatment Options into Management Plans for Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis
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Let’s Get “Real”: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency—Case-Based Perspectives on Managing Associated Emphysema
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Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: Picturing the Potential Role of OX40 and OX40L Inhibitors in Atopic Dermatitis
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Misdiagnosis Likely Due to Virus, Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptom Overlap
February 17th 2015Due to overlapping clinical and immunologic features between Chikungunya virus and rheumatoid arthritis' (RA) symptoms, Washington University in St. Louis researchers warn rheumatologists to be alert for potential misdiagnoses.
Early Research Shows Results with Multiple Sclerosis Vaccine
February 16th 2015In April 2010, Provenge became the first dendritic cell vaccine in cancer treatment to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and the agent is now used in the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Insights gleaned from this research are now being applied in the study of a potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis treatment and prevention.
Epilepsy: Neural Antibodies May Indicate Immunotherapy
Epilepsy patients who are not responding to anti-epileptic drugs and who have antibodies binding neural antigens may benefit from immunotherapy. Reporting in the European Journal of Immunology Raffaele Iorio and colleagues at the Institute of Neurology, Catholic University in Rome, Italy detailed their findings.
Cities' Link to Asthma Disputed by Recent Study
February 3rd 2015Challenging previous research, John Hopkins University investigators claimed race, poverty, and ethnicity - not residing in urban areas - were greater forecasters of asthma. However, they cautioned their study did not determine whether location is linked to a worsening in symptoms.
Aterica Digital Health, based in Waterloo, Canada, has designed an EpiPen case that's difficult to lose or leave behind.The "Veta smart case" uses sensors, Bluetooth radios and other technology to broadcast its location and perform several other tricks that could help users survive anaphylaxis. The case itself works with an app that runs on either Apple iOS or Google Android. Whenever a user's smartphone and case get too far apart to communicate, an alert appears on the phone. If a user misplaces a case, the app can reveal its exact location by tracking the signal it emits.
Recent Deaths from Anaphylaxis Underscore Need for Preparedness, Education
Four separate cases of fatal anaphylaxis, all within days of each other, vividly illustrate both the extreme difficulty of avoiding known food allergens and the potential consequences of any given exposure.
Gene-Environment Connection Seen in Peanut Allergy Study
December 15th 2014Infants of a particular generation born in Australia to Asian-born parents appeared to have an increased risk of peanut allergy compared with those of Australian-born parents, according to research published in the December issue of Allergy.
Is Sublingual Immunotherapy an Effective Treatment Option for Allergic Rhinitis?
Sublingual immunotherapy was developed nearly 30 years ago as an alternative to subcutaneous immunotherapy, an alternative that might trigger fewer systematic reactions such as anaphylaxis.
Researchers Devise a Reliable Test for Wheat-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
Researchers from Germany believe they have improved upon current methods for diagnosing wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (WDEIA) - and demonstrated that the condition isn't necessarily induced by exercise.
COPD, Asthma Symptoms Frequently Present in Adults with Obstructive Airway Disease
November 13th 2014About half of all adults afflicted with obstructive airway disease have symptoms overlapping with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. According to data presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting, this makes the possibility of misdiagnosis and mistreatment more likely.
A New Approach to Infection: Vitamin D
November 12th 2014Vitamin D has a role in the immune system distinct from its regulatory role in calcium homeostasis. Immune cells express the vitamin D receptor and can metabolize circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D into its active form, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D. This finding has researchers looking for new ways to manipulate vitamin D in the innate and adaptive immune systems.
Early Epinephrine Treatment in Anaphylaxis Associated with Reduced Risk of Hospitalization
New research indicates that children who receive epinephrine injections before they go to the emergency room for food-related anaphylaxis are less than half as likely to require hospitalization as those who first receive such treatment at the hospital.