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Researchers have found several urinary biomarkers that may be used to predict rheumatoid arthritis activity and prognosis.

Atopic dermatitis, sometimes referred to as baby eczema, affects more than three million infants in the United States every year. While there are no established preventive measures, researchers have been making strides in coming up with effective treatment strategies.

A presentation at the 2015 ACAAI Annual Meeting reviewed several key developments in the world of asthma that were published within the past year. The four main takeaways touched on the inhalant SB010, severe refractory asthma, medication during pregnancy, and the use of tiotropium.

Compared to placebo and treatment with adalimumab, treatment with once-daily oral baricitinib was associated with significant clinical improvements in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Patients with hepatitis C being treated with sofosbuvir-based regimens might benefit from monitoring for severe bradyarrhythmia.

A committee of the European Medicines Agency has completed a long-anticipated review finding no evidence that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines trigger complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

If one child is allergic to a specific food, then their brother or sister is probably going to have the intolerance as well, right? Not necessarily.

Why are so many children with asthma making trips to the emergency room (ER)? It could be due, at least in part, to what kind of physician is treating their condition to begin with.

Renal transplant patients often develop anemia (up to 40% are anemic 1 year after transplant) and often, clinicians fail to treat anemia aggressively. Anemia has been correlated with increased hospitalizations and higher mortality

Pharmacy shelves are lined with different brands to treat seasonal allergies, and most of the time, patients will pick one up. But as a new study found, allergy sufferers actually want prescription medication.

A penicillin allergy should be determined with a test, but far too often are patients wrongly told that a reaction to the drug means that they are allergic to it.

Breastfeeding has been linked to various benefits, including lower odds of childhood leukemia and reduced multiple sclerosis relapse risk in mothers. Unfortunately, reducing the risk of the baby developing allergies does not make the list.

Patients who could benefit from aspirin may be (wrongly) told that they are allergic because they had a reaction to the drug.

Researchers assess the association between endovascular mechanical thrombectomy and clinical outcomes after ischemic stroke.

The presence of urate crystal precipitation does not necessarily indicate a greater risk of cardiovascular complications for patients with increased levels of monosodium urate, which is the defining characteristic of gout.

A new tool for assessing the risk of thromboembolic events in patients with atrial fibrillation performed better than the existing standard in a large retrospective analysis. ATRIA risk scores were less likely than CHA2DS2-VASc scores to mistakenly characterize patients as "high risk" and, therefore, to lead to the overuse of anticoagulation.

Looking to be the "Global Leader" in clinical education in pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine can be a daunting task but with their annual meeting the team at CHEST looks to impart the latest information to their members to provide the best care for patients.

Asthma is a common problem in the medical community and even while there are many treatment options on the market, controlling symptoms of the condition continues to be an issue for patients and doctors alike.

In the world of pulmonary conditions idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is among the rarest, and up until recently there were no treatments available to help these patients. With the approval of OFEV there is now something that can be done while more research is conducted.

With the number of patients diagnosed with COPD continuing to grow new treatment options are also needed to help these patients maintain a sustainable quality of life.

While the days of the solo practitioner hanging a shingle in their hometown winds to an end the healthcare community is now turning its attention to how teams can provide the best level of care to patients.

Even as the annual CHEST meeting moved across the border to Montreal the goal of the event was the same, to provide education to attendees on a wide range of topics.

Ventilators are life-saving breathing devices that are essential in some situations; but ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)? It's fair to say that we would all happily do without.

Technology may have a hand in promoting disease, but it's also the thing that helps prevent, stop, and treat it.

Ventilators that help patients breathe can be life-saving devices; however, they also have the power to cause deadly ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).

What do silicone buttock injections have to do with lung tissue inflammation? You might not believe it if it wasn't documented.

Post traumatic stress disorder is a serious condition that affects not only our country's veterans but other people who have experienced difficult events in their lives. The implications can stretch to various parts of their lives including other areas of their health care.

At the annual CHEST conference in Montreal one of the sessions looked at new guidelines for treating patients with sepsis in emergency medical care.

Even doctors aren't safe from landing in their own office.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) accounts for eight million doctor visits each year in the United States alone, and a new analysis took a deeper look into adding multiple therapies to improve symptoms of the lung disease.