Immunology
FDA/CDC
FDA approves OTC antihistamine nasal spray
Nasal antihistamines “work quickly, whereas the nasal steroids don’t, and I think a lot of people who go to the drugstore looking for allergy...
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Back-to-school threat: Missed vaccinations in children, teens
“Health care providers should assess the vaccination status of all pediatric patients, including adolescents, and contact those who are behind...
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Third COVID-19 vaccine dose helped some transplant recipients
All of those with low titers before the third dose had high titers after receiving the extra shot, in case series.
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More evidence links COVID vaccines to rare cases of myocarditis in youth
The side effect seems to be more common in teen boys and young men than in older adults and women.
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Corticosteroid bursts may increase risk of sepsis, GI bleeding in children
Clinicians should save these treatments for when they are needed, doctors suggest.
FDA/CDC
FDA expands use of SLIT pollen allergy treatment to children
Ragwitek improved symptoms in children and adolescents and decreased their use of symptom-relieving medication.
Outcomes Research in Review
Lenvatinib Plus Pembrolizumab Improves Outcomes in Previously Untreated Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
Reports From the Field
Use of Fecal Immunochemical Testing in Acute Patient Care in a Safety Net Hospital System
FDA/CDC
Benlysta approved for children with SLE
This approval marks the first medicine in the United States meant to treat systemic lupus erythematous in children.
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Age 1 food allergies often disappear by age 6
SAN FRANCISCO – Peanut or egg allergies diagnosed in 1-year-olds often were gone by the time the child turned 6.