Patients with asthma commonly suffer from allergic diseases, with an estimated 80% suffering from allergic rhinitis. Asthma and allergic rhinitis share common characteristics, and allergic rhinitis is ...

Allergies can affect everyone differently, including the symptoms you have and the treatments that work. Mili Shum, MD, an allergist at University of Utah Health, helps patients suffering with asthma ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about the potential for patients to experience anaphylactic reactions after a negative skin test with any allergenic extract used to ...

Although allergies are widespread, their diagnosis is complex and, depending on the type of allergy, the prospects of success with therapy are not always clear. Skin tests so far have been unpleasant, ...

All skin tests doctors commonly use to check for food allergies can provide false negative results, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded — meaning people with potentially life-threatening ...

Food allergies are a major health problem worldwide. In some countries, up to 10% of the population is affected, mainly young children. Peanut allergy, in particular, is one of the most common ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a reaction of grade 2 or higher were 19.9 times more likely to develop persistent allergy.

Researchers at the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a test to simplify the diagnosis of allergies. Its effectiveness has now been confirmed in clinical samples from ...