Though atopic dermatitis is often regarded as infrequent in adulthood, only 40% of study subjects with current eczema reported onset of the disease in childhood, with most beginning after adulthood,...
HOUSTON – For rituximab patients undergoing desensitization, mast cell degranulation is a more effective predictor of hypersensitive reactions (HSR)... More »
SAN FRANCISCO – Formaldehyde has been named the American Contact Dermatitis Society Contact Allergen of the Year for 2015, Dr. David E. Cohen said i... More »
HOUSTON – The higher prevalence of chronic urticaria in patients with self-reported penicillin allergy suggests that these patients may be confusing... More »
HOUSTON – Sublingual immunotherapy, or SLIT, long used by clinicians worldwide, is newly approved for use in the United States, and practice guideli... More »
HOUSTON – Babies born to mothers who took omalizumab just before or during pregnancy exhibited birth defects that are in line with the general popul... More »
SNOWMASS, COLO. – A full decade after a large multicenter study identified non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as the major cancer risk associated with SLE, it... More »
Topical steroid therapy improved some indicators of mucosal integrity in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis, but proton pump inhibitor therapy did not, according to two studies reported in the...