Allergy & Clinical Immunology News

• Rhinitis Patients Report Symptomatic Medication Use A mobile app used to capture control of allergic rhinitis may favor those who are more tech savvy, say critics.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Don't Call Me 'Dr', Say Some Physicians. Most Disagree Patients "untitling" physicians has become more common. Some doctors think it's a positive trend, but others feel that the honorific title helps reinforce the physician's medical knowledge.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• ACEP 2022 There's an App for That: Let Technology Do the Work for You How to sift through the social media, blogs, and references for what is useful in practice.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• New Docs Find Both Fulfillment and Frustration in First Years Whether you just became an attending or have a few years under your belt, the newest generation of physicians speaks out about the good, the bad and the ugly within the medical field.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• International Experts Recommend Actions to End the Pandemic From rebuilding public trust in vaccines to adopting unified governmental approaches, the experts presented numerous methods for ending COVID-19 as a public health threat.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• Myocarditis Appears Rare After COVID-19 Vaccination Clinicians should consider age, sex, and vaccine type when accounting for vaccination risks, according to the authors of an observational study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• EMA Recommends Limiting the Indications for JAK Inhibitors The European authorities seek to minimize the risk of serious side effects with which these immune-modulating medicines are associated.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• Doctors Can Combat Urticaria Misinformation With Empathy, Facts Misinformation and disinformation about urticaria abound online, and doctors need to combat the false claims with facts, researchers in Ireland report.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• NP Fined $20K for Advertising Herself as 'Doctor Sarah' Although the California nurse practitioner held a doctor of nursing practice degree, she violated the state’s patient protection law restricting who may call themselves "doctor."
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• Add Tezepelumab to SCIT to Improve Cat Allergy Symptoms? Adding tezepelumab to cat allergy shots may provide better, longer-lasting symptom relief than allergy shots alone for patients with allergic rhinitis due to cat allergens, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• Doctors Fume Over Harmful Delays in Prior Authorizations Physicians feel overwhelmed by the rising volume of prior authorizations that insurers require and denials that can harm patients, sounding off in a recent Medscape poll.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• Celiac Disease Linked to Higher Risk for RA, JIA Clinicians caring for patients with celiac disease should have a low threshold to evaluate arthritic conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2022
• Residents React: Has Residency Become Easier or Overly Difficult? Do medical residents have it easier than in years past? What have pass-fail Step 1 exams and online interviews done for residency? Here's what residents are saying.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2022
• Docs Urge Screening for Autoimmune Disorders in Celiac Disease Many advocates aren't waiting for consensus guidelines to weigh in on this approach, citing the substantial health gains that early diagnosis and treatment can produce.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2022
• And the Winners Are…Feds Award $400K for Most Innovative Masks From an initial pool of 1500 entries, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority whittled down entrants to two winners and two runners up, awarding $400,000.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• ACAAI 2022 Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: Up-Dosing MAB Helps Poor Response Certain clinical predictors of poor response can guide the use of longer, higher-dose treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• Experts Explain the 'Perfect Storm' of Rampant RSV and Flu Infectious disease experts share why they think more than 2 years of COVID-19 helped create a treacherous environment for unusual RSV and flu outbreaks.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• ACAAI 2022 Epicutaneous Immunotherapy Helps Young Peanut-Allergic Children The study suggests this treatment approach may provide a safe and effective means of preventing allergic reactions associated with peanut protein in children younger than age 4.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• ACEP 2022 Tips for Providing In-Flight Assistance Data from one study showed that 1 in 2 physician airplane passengers assisted in medical emergencies.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• 'COVID-22' Case Studies: What Can We Learn From Them? French doctor Colas Tcherakian discusses two clinical cases that suggest this new wave has similarities with the first one. What lessons can we learn from this?
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022