Allergy & Clinical Immunology News

• Tick-Borne Illnesses Are on the Rise in Canada Especially in the summer, medical professionals should keep an eye out for cases of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Powassan virus, experts urged.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Alert Anzupgo Approved in Europe for Severe Hand Eczema The drug downregulates immune and inflammatory responses in cells linked to the disease pathology.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Alert FDA Approves JAK Inhibitor for Alopecia Areata The pivotal phase 3 trials enrolled 1223 adults in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Alert EMA Backs Oral Drug for Primary Biliary Cholangitis Iqirvo can delay liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with primary biliary cholangitis, the European Medicines Agency decided.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• 'Doesn't Fit Anything I Trained for': Treating Chronic Lyme Researchers, clinicians, and patient advocates at a national meeting weighed in on efforts needed to accelerate research on treatments for chronic illness associated with Lyme disease.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• A Woman, a Tuna Steak, and Allergy-like Symptoms Scombroid poisoning resembles an allergic reaction and occurs after eating fish contaminated with histamine.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Twice-Yearly PrEP Gives 'Huge' 100% Protection Final results of the highly anticipated PURPOSE 1 trial of lenacapavir show the shots prevent new infections without many side effects.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Taper, Dose Down, Discontinue: Striving for Less Steroid Use Now in the 75th year since the first presentation on the clinical use of glucocorticoids, what consensus has been reached in sparing their use to avoid their many potential adverse effects?
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Breaking Rheumatology's Reliance on Steroids: New Strategies Selective GC receptor agonists and modulators and GC plus hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitor combination therapy are some of the approaches under consideration.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 MHC-1-Opathies Linked to Ancient Retrovirus Infections Psoriasis is one of several autoimmune diseases linked to variations in MHC-1 that may have protected our ancestors from retroviruses.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Delgocitinib Effective for Hand Eczema in Phase 3 Studies Topical delgocitinib was effective and well tolerated in patients with chronic hand eczema with no safety concerns.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• The Case of the Drunken Teetotaler Episodes of somnolence and lethargy with recurring alcohol intoxication tormented a 50-year-old woman until the diagnosis of the rare auto-brewery syndrome was considered.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Remembering HIV Leaders Shot Down in Plane HIV researchers and activists were killed when a missile hit their passenger airplane over Ukraine 10 years ago in the deadliest shoot-down incident to this day.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• SPD 2024 Underserved Families Sound Off on Pediatric Derm Access The findings are based on in-depth interviews with parents and/or guardians of children who received care at a pediatric dermatology clinic.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Brazil Bucked the Trend in Childhood Vaccination in 2023 While childhood vaccination rates stagnated for the rest of the world, they increased in Brazil in 2023.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• SPD 2024 Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Be Aware of Cutaneous Signs The cutaneous manifestations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy are complex, but pediatric dermatologists can play an important role in their identification.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• SPD 2024 Colchicine Effective for Pediatric Aphthous Ulcers The findings come from a retrospective review of Mayo Clinic patients.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• New Benzoyl Peroxide Research: Reassuring Two new studies found no increased cancer risk and no difference in blood levels of benzene in users and nonusers of BP-containing acne products.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• SPD 2024 Consider Risks for Some Topical Ingredients in Children In pediatric dermatology, the list of potentially toxic products includes topical analgesics such as Castellani paint used for skin infections and alcohols used for umbilical care in newborns.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Tattoo Ink Contaminated With Bacteria Tattoo ink tested from different manufacturers are contaminated with aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, including possibly pathogenic microorganisms, warn investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024