Allergy/Asthma News

In a new study published in Pediatrics, researchers concluded that children with asthma have similar risk for for SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with children without asthma.

Phenotype-directed mepolizumab therapy reduced the number of asthma exacerbations among children and adolescents with exacerbation-prone eosinophilic asthma who live in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, researchers reported in The Lancet.

Since 2004, students with asthma have had the right to self-carry and self-administer their quick-relief albuterol inhaler while at school. But what happens if the inhaler is left at home or lost during the school day?

Although epinephrine could be a lifesaving drug for the 32 million people in the United States with food allergy, costs can make obtaining its protection difficult.

Elevated IgE levels in cord blood predicted allergic sensitization, airway inflammation and asthma among children in Taiwan, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Digital biomarkers derived from portable spirometers and smartwatches show promise as candidate endpoints for use in clinical trials or clinical care of pediatric asthma and cystic fibrosis, researchers reported.

Researchers found an association between larger households and higher naive regulatory T-cell levels, which in turn were associated with less allergic sensitization and disease at age 12 months, according to a study.

Childhood on a farm protected against allergic rhinitis throughout young adulthood, whether or not children stayed on the farm through puberty, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Few infants sensitized to egg had to completely avoid egg consumption, with most able to eat an entire scrambled egg after completing stepwise oral food challenges, according to a letter published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

With $31 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, researchers will investigate the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids and azithromycin, used either alone or together, in treating asthma.