Environmental/Airborne Allergy News

Using online data surveillance methods on seasonal allergy trends can help in predictive modeling, according to a study in PNAS Nexus.

The holiday season is a time for celebration, but it is also a challenging time to manage allergies. From scented candles and seasonal plants to holiday foods and winter cocktails, navigating this festive landscape can be difficult.

With the known negative impacts of air pollution on health, especially in patients with respiratory diseases/conditions, lacking local air quality and pollution data can be detrimental to an individual’s well-being.

Students and faculty from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, worked together in an innovative pilot course that led them to document a CSX coal terminal’s impact on air pollution on the Curtis Bay neighborhood.

BOSTON — Amidst climate change, it is important that pulmonologists/critical care experts consider the impact worsening particulate matter, ozone and allergens have on their patients, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

BOSTON — Rates of sensitizations to outdoor aeroallergens increased in Chicago following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an abstract presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

BOSTON — Symptoms improved with mepolizumab after treatment with omalizumab failed for a patient with asthma who developed allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, according to a poster presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

ALK announced the FDA approval of its new line of allergy skin testing devices and well trays, according to a company press release.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the New York State Department of Health $5 million to address indoor air quality issues and greenhouse gas reduction in schools.