Allergy

Study results show that incorrect use of inhalers and epinephrine autoinjectors is widespread among patients, which should prompt treating physicians to focus more on educating patients on proper use.

How could an effective, inexpensive hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug have been available at local pharmacies without clinicians and patients knowing it? Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have the answer.

In the inner cities some children do not have the resources at their disposal to get the care they needed. Recently considerable effort has been made to helping keep them healthy and able to function in their daily lives.

Study results indicate that the increasing rate and severity of obesity in western nations has rendered today's epinephrine autoinjectors an ineffective anaphylaxis treatment for many people.

The relationship between a blood thinner and the body's natural defense against HIV was discussed in new research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Being just a few blocks from such entertainment icons as Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera House the Voice Center at Voice Center at the NYU Langone Medical Center doctors treat everyone from stars to understudies to the salesmen on 5th Avenue.

Clinicians have several options when it comes to treating their allergic patients with subcutaneous (SCIT) or sublingual (SLIT) immunotherapy.

Clinicians have several guidelines, algorithms, and other tools at their disposal that can assist them in the differential diagnosis and management of chronic urticaria.

Fears about toxic mold have spawned unqualified and useless testing, both of buildings and people, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. In a case history of an incident last year, Melody Kawamoto and Elena Page MD describe a costly case that yielded no proof of mold.

Results from a recent survey indicate that efforts to educate American doctors about the diagnosis and treatment of anaphylaxis have achieved mixed results.

Endoscopically guided removal of bridging tissue between ostia can alleviate sinusitis, congestion, and other symptoms caused by mucous recirculation.

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.

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.

Allergists have long known that women are more likely than men to suffer severe allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis, but a new study may finally explain why.

In the first documented instance of its kind, a child was recently successfully treated for severe anaphylaxis triggered by eating an orange.

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.

Prenatal and early infant exposure to air pollutants may be linked to developing autism, according to research presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research.

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.

Lung infection bacteria levels will be tested via blood samples in emergency department patients in a new study being conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Why do some allergic reactions produce only relatively mild symptoms while others trigger anaphylaxis and eventual death?

A new study indicates that medications produce far more fatal cases of anaphylaxis than either venom or food.

To ensure that anaphylaxis episodes are treated in a timely and effective manner, action plans should be developed and distributed to patients, family and other caregivers, and schools.

New research indicates that doctors who treat anaphylaxis with intravenous epinephrine rather than intramuscular or subcutaneous injections are increasing the risk that patients will suffer overdoses or other adverse reactions.

New research suggests that oral immunotherapy may trigger anaphylaxis in an unusually high percentage of asthmatic teenagers with high-risk food allergies who failed to adhere to their management plan.

A new multi-step skin testing protocol effectively determines the presence of isosulfan blue allergy, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia.