Allergy/Asthma

Every test has its risks as well as its benefits. I would only order a test if the results would change my clinical decision or management, and the same is true for x-ray studies.

Early exposure to high levels of air pollution may be associated with reduced lung function during adolescence, researchers reported at the virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Personalized medicine with genotype-based prescribing of asthma controller medication led to improvement quality of life for young people with asthma compared with standard care, according to new research.

Exposure to cadmium in the womb may impact the development of asthma and allergic diseases in childhood, according to research presented at the virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Public health interventions and stay-at-home orders issued in March in the Philadelphia region to limit the transmission of COVID-19 also led to a marked decrease in health care visits for outpatient and hospitalized patients with asthma.

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will shift from an in-person to a virtual format for 2020, organizer Healio LIVE announced.

Nearly 90% of health care professionals incorrectly answered questions based on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases peanut allergy guidelines, survey results showed.

Allergy-related ED visits increased 14% in the United States between 2007 and 2015, researchers wrote in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Asthma prevalence estimates were 10 percentage points higher among children with a developmental disability or delay than among children without one, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

Practicing pediatricians have been using telehealth technology to communicate with patients who are not able to physically visit offices because of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infectious Diseases in Children asked Editorial Board Member Eugene Shapiro, MD, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine, if patients should pay the same amount for a telehealth visit as they would for an in-person visit.