Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Combination of oral dexamethasone and nebulized epinephrine may significantly reduce hospital admissions in bronchiolitis http://is.gd/zX10
  
  
• In children with scorpion envenomation, scorpion-specific F(ab')2 antivenom IV resolved symptoms within 4 hours http://is.gd/ALPQ
  
  
• Study: Bronchial thermoplasty decreases asthma attacks by 32% and ER visits by 84% in patients with severe asthma. http://is.gd/B76h
  
  
• The First Use of Penicillin in the United States: it looks like we remember success better than "failure" http://bit.ly/IyPBM
  
  
• The investigational antifibrotic agent pirfenidone may slow progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis http://is.gd/B72y
  
  
• Social media in action: a dermatologist on Twitter/YouTube/blog/site http://is.gd/Ay35 http://is.gd/Ay3b http://is.gd/Ay3l http://is.gd/Ay3s

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