Advertisement

Allergy

Home Allergy
For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis

Steroid-Releasing Sinus Implant Deemed Effective, Safe

Bioabsorbable implant improves postoperative outcomes after placement within frontal sinus ostia
Not all prescription drug users report receiving warnings about driving impairment

Driving Impairment Warnings Often Not Given With Rx Meds

For most drug categories, those who do receive warnings perceive higher risk of impaired driving

American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Oct. 26-30

The 2017 Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology The annual meeting of the American College of...

October 2017 Briefing – Allergy

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Allergy for October 2017. This roundup includes the latest...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched an initiative to examine which provider regulations should be discarded or revamped amid concerns that the regulations are reducing the amount of time that physicians spend with patients

CMS Launches Initiative to Examine Impact of Regulations

Officials set to travel country gathering information on impact of their regulations on physicians
Depressive symptoms increase during the internship year for training physicians

Depressive Symptoms Increase During Internship Year

Significantly greater increase seen among women; sex disparity partly due to work-family conflict
Fish is an important trigger of food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome

Fish Can Trigger Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome

75.03 percent of children undergoing oral food challenge achieved tolerance to some kind of fish
Telemedicine is supported as a method of health care delivery for allergists and immunologists

ACAAI: Telemedicine Can Be Beneficial in Allergy Care

Telemedicine use likely to expand for allergy care; further research is needed into impact, outcomes
Many pediatricians are not adhering to revised guidelines for peanut allergies that recommend early introduction to high-risk infants

ACAAI: Doctors Not Adhering to New Peanut Guidelines

Thirty-eight percent of pediatricians scored 1 or less; only 11 percent scored 4 on 0-to-4 scale
Receipt of gifts from pharmaceutical companies is associated with more prescriptions per patient and more costly prescriptions

Gifts From Pharma Companies Influence Prescribing Behavior

Clinicians who receive gifts write more prescriptions per patient, more costly and branded prescriptions