Allergy/Asthma

Infants with high consumption of infant formula and other strongly heat-treated milk products demonstrated increased risk for asthma, according to a study published by Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Media coverage of fatalities that result from food allergies contributes to the anxieties and fear felt by children with food allergies and their parents, according to a letter to the editor published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Black children with food allergies had less access to allergen-free foods compared with white children, based primarily on socioeconomic status and education, according to a study.

Young infants may develop food allergies due to frequent moisturization of the skin through transcutaneous sensitization, according to a population-based, randomized study.

African ancestry appeared strongly associated with readmission following an asthma-related hospital admission among children, according to study results published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Most patients with “immediate and potentially allergic reactions” to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines tolerated a second dose, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In a new study, childhood-onset asthma was associated with a low educational level in young adulthood, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

New data from the phase 3 TYREE study demonstrate efficacy of a fixed-dose combination of budesonide and albuterol in a single pressurized metered-dose inhaler to prevent exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in individuals with asthma.

Boston Children’s Hospital was named Tuesday as the best children’s hospital in the United States for the eighth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report, which expanded its annual list this year to include state and regional rankings.

Transition to a high-deductible health plan that largely exempted medications from the deductible was associated with minimal or no change in use of asthma controllers and exacerbations among children and adults with persistent asthma.