Allergy

Accorda vows to appeal court's patent invalidations.

Study found link between adult-onset asthma and exposure to cleaning products.

Genetics might not impact the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroid use in asthma.

John Kelso, MD, Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, explained the concerns researchers had of administering vaccines to patients experiencing allergic reactions to those vaccines.

Amy Scurlock, MD, Arkansas Children's Hospital, reiterated that there is more at stake beyond the medical management of food allergies.

Luis Salmun, MD, VP, Medical Affairs, North America, DBV Technologies, discussed results from the Viaskin Peanut study and explained the patch could be a potential treatment for children with peanut allergies.

Bola Akinlade, MD, MBA, Executive Director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, discussed the results of the dupilumab study presented at AAAAI 2017.

Jay Jin, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, shared the results from his team's case series surrounding unexpected bradycardia effect from epinephrine administration.

Mark S. Forshag, MD, MHA, with GSK, shared some of his team's next steps in advancing asthma care specifically with trying to keep things simple for the patients and their physicians.

Mark S. Forshag, MD, MHA, GSK, spoke with MD Magazine at AAAAI 2017 in Atlanta, GA, about the importance of eosinophils in treating severe asthma.

Would carrying a rescue inhaler correlate with better asthma control? That's what Sima J. Patel, DO and her team sought to investigate.

Luz Fonacier, MD, Winthrop University Hospital, detailed the process of looking at eczema and contact dermatitis in an allergist's practice.

The FDA approved a sublingual allergen extract for adults with house mite allergy.

Patients with severe allergic asthma should try omalizumab therapy.

Patients with multiple sclerosis say they do better on daclizumab.

Loss of sense of smell predicts more severe multiple sclerosis.

The FDA approved an OTC oral histamine for pediatric allergy treatment.

Relapses in patients taking natlizumab affected their disabilities in the short term, but not over a longer period.

Multiple sclerosis: Eat like a cave-dweller and get symptom relief?

Drug store CVS now carries cheaper option to EpiPen.

Looking at post-mortem brain samples, researchers found that multiple sclerosis is associated with an abundance of bacteria and molecular diversity.

People most at risk of needing adrenaline auto-injectors tend not to know how to use them properly, studies have found. Physicians are blamed for the lapses.

ASP0892 is an investigational DNA vaccine for the common, potentially fatal allergy.

Smoking teens, rogue genes, and mashed-up hookworms are among the many diverse, fascinating, and important asthma topics that came out of 2016.

The nonprofit, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, is preparing a set of recommendations on best drugs for multiple sclerosis and is seeking public comment.

Using data from the Inner-City Asthma Consortium, researchers were able to identify the factors that contribute to more than half the variance in asthma severity, including allergic sensitization and, significantly, environmental tobacco smoke.

A signaling mechanism can turn T-cells into destroyers.

Cornell scientists said they created a chemical tool that uses ultraviolet light to track inflammation and even control it. Their hope is it might work to treat inflammatory diseases, perhaps even multiple sclerosis.

A new drug for atopic dermatitis got FDA approval.

Previous research showed probiotics given to pregnant women during certain stages of pregnancy and post delivery reduced the likelihood of atopic dermatitis in their children. Recently published reports; however, may not agree.