Allergy & Clinical Immunology News

• Breastfeeding: USPSTF Finds Poor Support in Primary Care A lack of primary care support, compounded by socioeconomic barriers, can interfere with a family’s desire to breastfeed a child.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Is It Asthma or COPD? What PCPs Need to Know How can you avoid diagnostic errors in COPD and Asthma? We asked the experts.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Experts Provide Measles Tips for Dermatologists As the outbreak widens, dermatologists may see cases for the first time. “It’s really important to have this on our radar,” said Esther Freeman, MD, PhD, chair of the AAD’s Emerging Diseases Task Force.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Australia Braces for Major Influenza, RSV, Pertussis Season Australians are preparing for significant numbers of respiratory infections this winter, as cases of influenza, RSV, and pertussis surge earlier than expected.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• New Scoring System May Streamline Food Allergy Diagnosis The NAPFA score may predict which children have a food allergy, even without allergy test results.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• US Measles Battle Hindered by Confusion Over Health Secretary Response U.S. pediatricians and infectious disease experts say the fight against rising measles cases nationwide is being hampered by a lack of forceful advocacy for vaccination from...
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Switching to Budesonide Tablet Shows Promise in EoE Budesonide orodispersible tablets show effectiveness in treating patients with eosinophilic oesophagitis after switching from off-label swallowed topical corticosteroids, a study shows.
  Medscape News UK, April 09, 2025
• Modest Effects of Valacyclovir in Herpes Zoster Eye Disease Administration of low-dose valacyclovir over a year does not significantly reduce the occurrence of herpes zoster ophthalmicus but shows potential benefits over time.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• AI, Targeted Combinations Advance NSCLC Treatment Landscape From new KRAS and HER2 inhibitors to home-administered immunotherapy, recent trials mark a turning point in how metastatic lung cancer is managed.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Infections Higher With JAK Inhibitors in Eczema Study A prospective registry study found a greater risk for infections associated with JAK inhibitors in adolescents and adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis compared with biologics.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Rhinitis Incidence and Remission Show Sex-Specific Patterns The incidence of allergic rhinitis is high from childhood through young adulthood, with girls having higher incidence rates than boys and boys having higher remission rates than girls.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Federal HIV Funding Cuts Push Pause on Progress Patients who lose medication access will experience disease progression and risk for death, experts emphasize.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Serum IFN Score May Predict Outcome in Diffuse Cutaneous SSc Serum type I interferon scores may help identify patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis with higher disease activity and poorer prognosis.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Biologics Outperform Conventional Therapy in Still’s Disease Biologic therapy was associated with more than seven times greater odds of reaching sustained remission compared with glucocorticoids and conventional DMARDs.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Fed Cuts Leave Pulmonology Community Gasping for Resources Associations and clinicians cite impact on programs, including smoking cessation and asthma management.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Dysautonomia Tied to Increased Risk for SD A large database study suggests that patients with primary dysautonomias face a significantly increased risk for seborrheic dermatitis, especially when exposed to psychotropic medications.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Exodus of Infectious Disease Experts Imperils Public Safety Loss of employees across federal health departments may threaten critical public health functions, IDSA says.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Long COVID Cuts Imperil Treatment Progress, Researchers Warn NIH cuts target $1.6 billion RECOVER initiative to study and improve treatment of long COVID, putting further research gains in doubt.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2025