Allergy & Clinical Immunology News

• WHO Calls Emergency Meeting as Monkeypox Cases Cross 100 in Europe The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• Pfizer Says COVID-19 Vaccine Response Robust in Young Children Much anticipated findings from Pfizer/BioNTech suggest three doses of COVID-19 vaccine protect kids ages 6 months to 5 years old.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Combining Allergic Rhinitis Treatments May Improve Symptoms If one treatment for allergic rhinitis doesn't improve symptoms, combining it with other treatments may work, researchers in Thailand report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Adolescents With Food Allergies Share Common Concerns Adolescents with food allergies have allergy-related beliefs and concerns that involve five themes that may influence how they manage their condition, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• How to Manage Drug Interactions With Paxlovid for COVID Some drugs can be held or reduced for the 5-day course. IDSA has published an online guide. Availability in pharmacies has greatly increased in recent weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy During Pregnancy Appears Safe for Babies Maintaining allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) during pregnancy shows no evidence of raising the risk of congenital malformations or other adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to a nationwide study from Sweden.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• FDA Approves First Drug for Eosinophilic Esophagitis Dupilumab (Dupixent) is approved to treat eosinophilic esophagitis in adults and children aged 12 years and older weighing at least 40 kg.
  FDA Approvals, May 20, 2022
• CDC Signs Off on COVID Boosters in Children Ages 5-11 An advisory panel also called for stepped-up efforts to make sure children get their initial vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Patients' Bad Behavior Provokes Burnout in Physicians: Study Mistreatment and discrimination by patients increase the risk of physician burnout; for 1 in 5 physicians, patients refused care because of the physician's appearance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• ATS 2022 NAVIGATOR Steers Uncontrolled Asthma Toward Calmer Seas The phase 3 trial showed high complete response rates and reduced disease burden with tezepelumab vs placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘COVID-Proof’ Your Home Is someone at home sick with COVID-19? One simple but effective strategy for keeping the virus from spreading is to make your indoor air as much like the outdoors' as possible.
  Kaiser Health News, May 18, 2022
• Albuterol-Budesonide Combo Offers Better Rescue Therapy for Moderate to Severe Asthma Among patients with uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma, a fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide gives better as-needed relief than albuterol alone, a large international study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• US Tops 1M COVID Deaths: 'History Should Judge Us Harshly' Case numbers are rising again, and the United States reaches a once unimaginable and grim milestone.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Baricitinib Promotes Hair Growth in Alopecia Areata More than one third of patients who received the high dose of the Janus kinase inhibitor achieved the study goal of approximately 80% hair coverage.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• COPD Screening for Asymptomatic Adults? USPSTF Weighs In, Again “In addition to potential treatment harms, there are opportunity costs to screening.”
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Another COVID Surge is Here, but It May Be Less Severe This new surge is not expected to be as severe as previous waves, but that all could change, experts from Johns Hopkins University said.
  WebMD Health News, May 10, 2022
• Medical Education Programs Tell How Climate Change Affects Health Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• What Are Common Misconceptions About Nurses? Nurses nationwide recently expressed outrage after Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen commented about the attractiveness of a nurse-actress on his show. Do you confront misconceptions about your role?
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 10, 2022