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Allergen immunotherapy can reduce symptoms of allergic rhinitis and asthma and decrease the need for medication, but it poses the risk of asthma exacerbation or anaphylaxis, particularly in patients with uncontrolled asthma.

After 6 months of treatment with inhaled budesonide, 800 μg daily, bronchial hyperresponsiveness was greater and the proportion of eosinophils in induced sputum and improvement in lung function were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers with asthma.

A Korean analysis of 25,000 patients found a new risk of stroke: being metabolically obese even though body weight is normal.

There has been plenty of research to show that rehabilitation can help with the cognitive function of patients with multiple sclerosis. A recent study looked at whether advanced imaging can determine whether some patients will respond better to the therapy than others.

Fecal Microbiota Transplant is being used to treat C. difficile infections, but it can cause complications and even death, a study found.

Depending on the age of the children they are treating pediatricians have to find a good working relationship with parents while also maintaining the privacy of their patients.

Topical corticosteroid worked as well as bleach in transforming the microbiota of affected skin to that of healthy skin, an NYU study found.

In adult patients neuromyelitis optica is considered a rare enough condition. It is even more rare in children making the diagnosis and treatment a longer and more careful process.

The FDA approved a fixed-dose combination of canagliflozin and metformin hydrochloride extended release (Invokamet RX/Janssen).

Patients with MS may make better choices on treatments if they understand the basic statistical concept of confidence intervals, a team reports.

A French population-based study indicated that better drug therapy could prevent many hospital admissions for asthma exacerbations.

Once-daily tiotropium added to inhaled corticosteroids was safe and well tolerated in a phase 3 trial in nearly 400 asthmatic adolescents.

The likelihood that a participant in a randomized, controlled trial receives laquinimod or placebo to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) could explain the differences in study results, according to recent research.

Nearly a quarter of HIV positive patients getting care through the Ryan White federally funded treatment program have not gotten their viral loads down. The analysis was made by the district's health department, which has used the data to address the problem.

Can Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV be given post-exposure? Absolutely, a New York City team reports.

There are now more than a dozen medications approved for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis, a treatment pending approval for primary progressive, and very early signs of hope for secondary progressive. As a result there was plenty of optimism at ECTRIMS as it left London and prepared for Paris next year.

As Ocrelizumab moves its way through the approval process for patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, data has been released on a trial for a potential treatment for the secondary progressive form.

The percentage of patients with adverse events was comparable in the tiotropium and the placebo treatment groups in pooled data from seven phase 2 and 3 studies in nearly 3,500 adults.

Phototherapy can be effective in treating AD but not all patients have access to the therapy, a study found.

Study shows when to screen stroke patients for depression.

Contrary to the previously published literature on cardiac function in asthma patients, Turkish researchers observed no diastolic dysfunction in a group of 50 asthmatic children evaluated in a recent echocardiographic study, even with tissue Doppler imaging.

Increasing evidence supports the possibility that alterations in gut microbiota may influence susceptibility to asthma and allergic diseases such as eczema and food allergies.

There is no longer any question about the health risks associated with smoking. What remains to be found is what is the best way to help people who have started to smoke to quit.

As the effort continues to help people quit smoking research is being done to find the best treatment options available and any potential issues they may present in the process.

Investigators found poor asthma control in obese or overweight patients despite optimal treatment and significantly higher BMI values in those with uncontrolled asthma than in those with partially or totally controlled asthma.

Endothelial activation and levels of C-reactive protein, plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1, and von Willebrand factor increased during asthma exacerbations in a study of 22 pediatric patients.

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, also known as PML is a problem which can affect a select number of patients with multiple sclerosis as well as other conditions which involve the immune system. What can be done to address the condition is still being determined by the medical community.

“To our knowledge, only one case of APMPPE following human influenza virus vaccine was reported, and this case reportedly demonstrated a benign clinical course.” The researchers encourage doctors to be aware, though this case was both benign and extremely rare.

A meta-analysis of 104 cohort studies involving more than 9.5 million patients concludes that atrial fibrillation is associated with elevated rates of cardiovascular disease, renal disease and early death. Its authors conclude the treatment of AF should expand its focus beyond stroke prevention.

Higher levels of nitrogen dioxide were associated with higher levels of HOMA-IR, glucose, insulin, and leptin. The degree of association, however, varied among the different populations. Effect estimates for pre-diabetic individuals were large and highly statistically significant, while the associations were smaller and weaker in non-diabetic individuals and those who had already developed T2DM.