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  • The Pen is Mightier Than the Jab


    MacDoctorAuthority Authority: 518
    Pharmac is almost universally hated by GPs. The incomprehensible funding decisions. The endless “special authorities” designed only to stop you prescribing a drug. The sudden unexpected loss of control of a patient’s disease because of a change to a cheaper brand. The dwindling choice of drugs which becomes ...
    6 days ago
  • Anaphylaxis with Iodinated Contrast Media – RGH E-Bulletin


    BitingTheDustAuthority Authority: 129
    In excess of 70 million injections of iodinated contrast media are administered per year around the world. This approach is a diagnostic aid that has revolutionised clinical practice since its introduction in the 1950’s. Although generally considered relative safe, there is a possibility of adverse effects in the ...
    1 week ago
  • Hope for Kids with Peanut Allergy?


    FooducateAuthority Authority: 470
    Twelve million Americans suffer from food allergies. Though some children outgrow allergies, many have to live with a condition for life. Now it appears that there is a glimmer of hope for some families. Earlier this year, researchers at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital presented a ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Saving my bacon


    The Antics of a Brittle AsthmaticAuthority Authority: 106
    I was supposed to have my swine flu vaccination at the GP surgery on Tuesday. I went along to the appointment, the nurse went through the usual precautionary questions, and then we went through the ingredients of the vaccine and it turned out there was something in it Im allergic to - a sulphate. She went through to ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Omalizumab-associated anaphylactic reactions


    Allergy NotesAuthority Authority: 131
    The FDA reports for 2007-2008 were queried for new adverse reactions suspected to be due to omalizumab. There were 85 cases with an anaphylaxis descriptor and additional 33 cases consistent with anaphylaxis (118 total). 32 reactions occurred after the first dose and 14 were after the second dose of omalizumab. ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Video: Be Safe from Anaphylaxis


    Allergy NotesAuthority Authority: 131
    From Mayo Clinic: "Every year up to two thousand people in the United States and Canada die from anaphylaxis -- a serious allergic reaction. The most common causes are allergies to peanuts, insect bites and seafood. But not all anaphylactic reactions are severe. They can be mild with subtler symptoms. And most ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Canada Probes H1N1 Vaccine Anaphylaxis Spike


    Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.comAuthority Authority: 158
    Canadian health officials are continuing to investigate a spike in anaphylaxis associated with one batch of the countrys H1N1 vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline.
    2 weeks ago
  • Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis (FDEIA)


    Allergy NotesAuthority Authority: 131
    Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) is a special form of food allergy where a food-intake alone does not induce any symptoms. Anaphylaxis occurs only when triggering factors such as exercise or aspirin-intake are added after ingestion of the causative food. The most frequent causative food in FDEIA in ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Itchin’ to get out


    scotchneat.caAuthority Authority: 111
    Last night, Melle and I went to a public lecture at the UW Pharmacy School. This one was about Anaphylaxis with Dr Mark Greenwald. Greenwald pulled about 150 slides in 70 minutes (well over the promised 45), and slid right through the stuff I think most of the people wanted to learn about–how allergens engender ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Batch of H1N1 vaccine recalled in Canada for severe reactions


    MATADOR NINETY-FOURAuthority Authority: 124
      Powered by Max Banner Ads   A batch of swine flu vaccine is being pulled back for investigation after it appeared to cause higher rates of severe allergic reactions than other lots.GlaxoSmithKline Inc., which is producing the Canadian order of H1N1 influenza vaccine at its plant in Ste-Foy, Que., said it asked ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Predictors of severe anaphylaxis in Hymenoptera venom allergy


    Allergy NotesAuthority Authority: 131
    Severe anaphylaxis to honeybee or vespid (wasp) stings is associated with a variety of risk factors, which are poorly defined. This study of 962 patients evaluated the association of baseline serum tryptase and other variables routinely recorded during patient evaluation with the frequency of past severe anaphylaxis ...
    4 weeks ago

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