Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study involved 545 patients (67.5% women) with a clinical history of allergic reactions to penicillin and a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The safety of cephalosporins for patients with verified penicillin allergies has not been well-studied.

We recently marked "National Penicillin Allergy Day" on September 28. If you're asking "Why is that a thing?", the answer is that approximately 30 million Americans report an allergy to penicillin or ...

Dangerous penicillin reactions, in patients with a special sensitivity to the drug, can range from fever, itching and swollen joints to sudden death from anaphylactic shock, an extreme allergic ...

Many people believe they have a penicillin allergy, but up to 90% are not actually allergic. Side effects like nausea are often mistaken for a true allergic reaction. An allergist can perform tests to ...

Some patients with rheumatic heart disease who are thought to have an allergic response to injectable penicillin may actually be experiencing a cardiac reaction to the injection, new information ...

Sometimes, we have to take the most expedient action in healthcare. But most of the time, we should do the right thing, even if it's harder. I would choose the fourth option for this patient and hope ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Thousands of people go through life believing they are allergic to penicillin, but studies, including one just conducted at Vanderbilt University, prove that only ...

Winnie Tong has received funding from Maridulu Budyari Gumal, the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE), Triple I Clinical Academic Group seed grant 2017, and the ...

The many varieties of penicillin have a unique disadvantage: about one in a hundred patients who get them by injection becomes sensitized, so that his next shot may produce a severe reaction marked by ...