Five Keys to Helping Long-COVID Patients Recover Five Keys to Helping Long-COVID Patients Recover
Certain strategies have proven helpful for sufferers of long COVID as they slowly progress through recovery.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Another Dangerous Amoeba Linked to Neti Pots and Nasal Rinsing
(MedPage Today) -- For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind of deadly amoeba to nasal rinsing.... (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - March 14, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
AAAAI 2024: The Clinical Impact of New Food Allergy Data AAAAI 2024: The Clinical Impact of New Food Allergy Data
Dr Roxanne C. Oriel describes how updates from AAAI 2024, including the new indication for omalizumab, will directly impact her patients.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: None MDAngle Source Type: news
Risk for Preterm Birth Stops Maternal RSV Vaccine Trial Risk for Preterm Birth Stops Maternal RSV Vaccine Trial
With a maternal vaccine already on the market to protect newborns from RSV, the outlook for another looked promising, but latest phase 3 trial of a new candidate is now halted over safety concerns.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
A Deadly Amoeba Is Linked to Neti Pots. Here ’ s What to Know
NEW YORK — For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind of deadly amoeba to nasal rinsing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that for the first time connects Acanthamoeba infections to neti pots and other nasal rinsing devices.
Officials also renewed their warning that extremely rare, but potentially deadly, consequences can come from flushing nasal passages with common tap water.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Sublingual Immunotherapy Safe, Effective for Older Kids Sublingual Immunotherapy Safe, Effective for Older Kids
A Canadian study suggested that SLIT is safe and effective in older children and teens with multiple food allergies who are at a high risk for severe reaction.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 13, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Allergy & Clinical Immunology Source Type: news
Cincinnati Children's awarded $2.6 million NIH grant, will join the Consortium of Food and Allergy Research
Cincinnati Children ’s Hospital is one of only 10 centers in the United States to be awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to join the Consortium of Food Allergy Research. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 13, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Christian LeDuc Source Type: news
Lebrikizumab Found Effective for Patients With AD, SOC Lebrikizumab Found Effective for Patients With AD, SOC
Interim results at 16 weeks were based on 50 adolescents and adults with skin types IV-VI.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Dermatology Source Type: news
Three Trials Examine Dupilumab in Moderate-to-Severe Asthma
(MedPage Today) -- Three abstracts evaluating dupilumab (Dupixent) for moderate-to-severe asthma were presented at the recent American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) annual meeting:
VESTIGE, a phase IV trial which evaluated... (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - March 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Why You Suddenly Have Allergies
When Dr. Gailen Marshall was training to become a physician, he was taught that allergies were a kid thing. “Back in the day, the allergist’s office was full of children,” says Marshall, who is the president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. “If you ever thought about doing allergy testing or allergy shots in someone older than 40, that’s because you were just a money-grubbing doctor.”
A lot has changed since then. In 2021, about a quarter of U.S. adults reported seasonal allergies, compared to 19% of children.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Sneezing already? Doctors are seeing 'unusually' high levels of patients with severe allergies BEFORE spring - as they explain why symptoms may feel worse this year
If you've been sneezing more than usual, you're not alone. Americans in multiple states are reporting that allergy season has hit them early, despite the fact that it's not yet spring. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vitamin D Supplements May Be a Double-Edged Sword Vitamin D Supplements May Be a Double-Edged Sword
Dr F. Perry Wilson comments on a new analysis showing different effects of vitamin D and calcium supplementation on cancer and cardiovascular mortality.Medscape (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
Clinical Signs Tied to Rhinosinusitis ID'd in Patients With Nasal Allergies
MONDAY, March 11, 2024 -- Clinical signs associated with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) have been identified for patients presenting with a chief complaint of nasal allergies, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in Otolaryngology-Head and... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 11, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
3 Pharmaceutical Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist in March
Pharmaceutical companies play a tremendous role in modern healthcare. While sometimes controversial, drugmakers design medicine to treat some of the worst ailments plaguing society and constantly innovate to improve human life. Their long-term relevance in healthcare makes the pharmaceutical…#healthcare #pfe #pfizer #seagen #abbvie #abbottlaboratories #humira #botox #allergan #rinvoq (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can Gut Microbiota Predict Multifactorial Disease Risk? Can Gut Microbiota Predict Multifactorial Disease Risk?
Research suggested that bacteria alone do not play an important role in determining disease risk.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
