Allergy/Asthma News

Physicians treating Medicare patients are staring down the barrel of five consecutive years of cuts to their reimbursement rates.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with alpha-gal syndrome need ingredient transparency to avoid animal-derived products in medications, according to a presentation here.

SAN DIEGO — Household composition and family history influenced concerns and knowledge about pediatric food allergy among expectant mothers, according to a presentation here.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with hereditary angioedema whose attacks impacted their larynx experienced on-demand relief within 1.29 hours with oral sebetralstat, preventing potentially fatal outcomes, according to an abstract presented here.

It has been 5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many providers to embrace telehealth.

Primary immunodeficiencies are not as rare as they used to be, James Fernandez, MD, PhD, told Healio, and practicing allergist-immunologists need to be prepared to diagnose and treat them, often in collaboration with other specialists.

ORLANDO — A subset of patients treated with delgocitinib cream 20 mg/g for moderate to severe chronic hand eczema achieved a “super-response,” by week 16, according to a presenter at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps saw improvements across all endpoints with tezepelumab, according to an abstract presented here.

Among children born in France, 83.1% had been prescribed a respiratory medication during the ages of 0 through 10 years, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.