In an interview conducted at the 2024 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Prithviraj Bose, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,…
Systemic mastocytosis, a rare blood disorder, affects the entire body. There are many challenges associated with living with this systemic mastocytosis that are centered around reducing the frequency…
AsthmaMD has created an app for iOS and Android that will make asthma control for patients, and asthma tracking for physicians, simpler than ever before. With easy to…
Wearable technology is in the spotlight lately with the coming of the Apple Watch and the proliferation of fitness trackers and the internet of things (IoT). With all…
Charlotte Collins, J.D., Senior Vice President, Policy and Programs, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America talks about the risk of allergy, asthma, and anaphylaxis at school. Many children will have…
According to Reuters, DVB Technologies, developer of the “peanut allergy patch,” will begin marketing in the US today for additional funding to advance research. Viaskin Peanut, the new patch…
Charlotte Collins, J.D., Senior Vice President, Policy and Programs, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, discusses the results from the AAFA Annual Report. According to the report, there…
NPR’s Shots blog reports that new governmental programs encouraging communication between children’s physicians and their school nurses may improve healthcare for children. “Though school nurses see many students regularly,…
Yoga is often recommended to patients in order to improve their asthma symptoms but new research published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology has shown that there is…
In a study published by The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, researchers investigated the correlation between season of birth and food allergies. The cohort consisted of African-American…
Case Study: Insect-Stings and Pediatric Anaphylaxis A 12-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department after being stung by a bee. He had been well until he was…
Was this patient’s pruritus the manifestation of a single multi-system disease involving the lungs and nervous system, or a separate entity occurring in the presence of other unrelated…
