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April 15, 2014PREVIEW
Hospitalized patients who were labeled as having a penicillin “allergy” had longer hospital stays, were exposed to more broad-spectrum antibiotics (e.g., fluoroquinolones, vancomycin), and had...
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April 7, 2014PREVIEW
A task force convened by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) provided an updated definition of severe asthma, addressed treatment of patients with severe...
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March 24, 2014PREVIEW
In healthy volunteers, administration of phenylephrine in combination with acetaminophen and ibuprofen, compared with phenylephrine alone, led to a 4-fold increase in the maximal plasma...
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March 10, 2014PREVIEW
Anaphylaxis is more prevalent than once thought, occurring in nearly 1 out of every 50 Americans. Of individuals self-reporting a previous anaphylactic episode, only 11% said they used...
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December 6, 2013PREVIEW
In a small study of adults with stable mild-to-moderate asthma, administering propranolol for 6 to 8 weeks did not worsen patients’ response to methacholine challenge or result in significant...
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