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Health Canada Reinforces the Importance of Food Allergy Awareness
Health Canada is reminding Canadians of the importance of allergy awareness. For those individuals with food allergies, severe allergic reactions can occur quickly and without warning. In fact, some can be life-threatening for people of all ages, particularly children.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - July 6, 2006 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Feds Post Food Allergy Guidelines for Schools
The federal government is issuing its first guidelines to schools on how to protect children with food allergies. The voluntary guidelines call on schools to take such steps as restricting nuts, shellfish or other foods that can cause allergic reactions, and make sure emergency allergy medicine — like EpiPens — are available.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 30, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Maternal diet and its influence on the development of allergic disease
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Source: Clinical and Experimental Allergy - November 1, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Elizabeth A Miles, Philip C Calder Tags: Invited Review Source Type: research
Putting allergy/immunology into context: analysis of the 2012 US Medicare reimbursement data
Released in April 2014 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Provider Utilization and Payment Data Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (Physician and Other Supplier PUF) is the first unrestricted look into Medicare use and payment data in more than 3 decades. Intended to increase transparency in health care and government, the file contains reimbursement information on 6,000 different procedures and services reimbursed to more than 880,000 health care providers in 2012.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - January 8, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Andrew S. Nickels, James T. Li, Gerald Volcheck Tags: Letter Source Type: research
National Food Allergy Awareness Month - May 2014
Roughly 2.5 million Canadians, or about seven per cent of the population, report that they have a food allergy. For some of these people, allergic reactions can be serious and even life threatening.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - March 27, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Health Canada Source Type: news
National Food Allergy Awareness Month
May is National Food Allergy Awareness Month. Did you know that food allergies affect over 1.8 million Canadians, and some studies suggest that this number may be increasing? For some people, allergic reactions can be serious, if not life-threatening.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - May 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Health Canada Source Type: news
China's Capital Issues First Ever 'Red Alert' on Air PollutionChina's Capital Issues First Ever 'Red Alert' on Air Pollution
China's capital on Monday issued its first ever "red alert" for pollution, as the city government warned that Beijing would be shrouded in heavy smog from Tuesday until Thursday. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - December 8, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Allergy & Clinical Immunology News Source Type: news
Ministerial Message - National Food Allergy Awareness Month
May is National Food Allergy Awareness Month and a great opportunity to help Canadians understand what food allergies are and what they can do to avoid and treat allergic reactions.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - May 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Health Canada Source Type: news
Mylan May Have Overcharged U.S. for EpiPen by $1.27 Bln Mylan May Have Overcharged U.S. for EpiPen by $1.27 Bln
The U.S. government may have overpaid drugmaker Mylan N.V. by as much as $1.27 billion between 2006 and 2016 for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy & Clinical Immunology News Source Type: news
Retrospective Review of Insurance Coverage for Patch Testing
Insurance coverage and prior authorization (PA) requirements imposed by insurance companies have resulted in widespread barriers to care for both dermatology and allergy patients.1 –3 In a recent survey conducted by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), greater than two-thirds of 177 respondents from US-based AAD committee/task force members under the Council on Government Affairs, Health Policy, and Practice and Association of Dermatology Administrators/Managers member s reported that PA requirements negatively affect at least 1 patient daily.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - February 22, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Azam A. Qureshi, Olabola Awosika, Kamaria Nelson, Spencer Brodsky, Haijun Wang, Alison Ehrlich Source Type: research
Maternal Nutritional Status and Development of Atopic Dermatitis in Their Offspring
AbstractAtopic dermatitis (AD) is the leading chronic skin inflammatory disease and the initial manifestation of atopic march. Available evidence supports the notion that primary prevention early in life leads to a decreased incidence of AD, thus possibly decreasing the subsequent occurrence of atopic march. Nutritional status is essential to a proper functioning immune system and is valued for its important role in AD. Essential nutrients, which include carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals, are transferred from the mother to the fetus through the placenta during gestation. Various nutrients, such as pol...
Source: Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology - March 9, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Summary of COVID-19 medicines guidance: Allergy and immunology, Specialist Pharmacy Service (published 6th January 2021)
This page summarises and signposts to medicine related guidance we ' re aware of from professional and government bodies relating to coronavirus and allergy and immunology conditions.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Critical Role of Prenatal Genetic Study in Prevention of Primary Immunodeficiency in High-risk Families: The Largest Report of 107 Cases
This study aims to investigate the role of prenatal diagnosis (PND) in Iranian couples with a previous history of primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDD) in their family. All referred couples with a family history of PIDD and a tendency for PND were included in this project. Based on gestational age, chorionic villus sampling (CVS) was performed to analyze the molecular defect of the fetus according to the previous gene defect of the affected case in the family. Postnatal confirmation was performed by immunological screening tests. In a total of 100 cases, CVS was not evaluated in 19 patients due to unwillingness (n=5), ...
Source: Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - January 19, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Seyedeh Zalfa Modarresi Nastaran Sabetkish Mohsen Badalzadeh Shaghayegh Tajik Behnaz Esmaeili Mohammad Reza Fazlollahi Massoud Houshmand Jaber Gharehdaghi Shirin Niroomanesh Fatemeh Rahimi Sherbaf Zahra Alizadeh Nazanin Khodayari Namini Marzieh Maddah Zah Source Type: research
