About 10-15% of all adults report that they are allergic penicillin or other antibiotics, although the accuracy and significance these reports remain unclear. In the outpatient setting, clinicians face a dilemma in prescribing for patients with a history of an allergic reaction to antibiotics. Which drugs should these patients avoid? Are these patients at increased risk for an allergic reaction...

ACHOO! Allergies can be an annoying condition to deal with and finding ways to prevent them from occurring might make many folks breathe a little easier. Allergies are caused by hypersensitivity to a particular substance (e.g., food, pollen, fur, or dust) and the symptoms experienced are the body?s immune response to that substance. When it comes to allergies, there are actually many different ...

GENETICS OF FOOD ALLERGIES 2 This paper purports that genetic factors assume the greatest influence over the development of food allergies in humans. A number of researchers argue that environmental factors play a more dynamic role, especially in the early development of the allergic condition. Through an examination of the process of an allergic reaction and an analysis of statistics and recen...

ACHOO! Allergies can be an annoying condition to deal with and finding ways to prevent them from occurring might make many folks breathe a little easier. Allergies are caused by hypersensitivity to a particular substance (e.g., food, pollen, fur, or dust) and the symptoms experienced are the body?s immune response to that substance. When it comes to allergies, there are actually many different ...

0173 For disease outbreak detection, the public-health community has historically relied on the watchful eyes of doctors and other health-care workers, who have reported individual cases or clusters of cases of particular diseases to healthcare and other authorities. The increased availability of electronic health-care data, however, raises the possibility of more automated and earlier outbreak...