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.

• 32% of caregivers describe inappropriate home use of albuterol for asthma exacerbations http://is.gd/1km7e
  
  
• Hydroxyzine more effective than nonsedating antihistamines in suppressing histamine/allergen-induced skin reactions http://is.gd/1kmHN
  
  
• RN directed a fraud scheme, gave allergy shots to 800 patients without credentials, gets 9 years in prison http://is.gd/1kjrZ (PDF)
  
  
• Abdominal ultrasonography useful as early diagnostic tool for acute abdominal attack in hereditary angioedema (HAE) http://bit.ly/Hukpd
  
  
• Exhaled nitric oxide level decreases after methacholine inhalation challenge http://bit.ly/twESC
  
  
• Patients hospitalized for acute asthma have poor perception of airflow obstruction http://bit.ly/rosuC
  
  
• Only 39.7% of college students with food allergy avoided a self-identified food allergen. More than three fourths of college students with food allergy did not carry self-injectable epinephrine (EpiPen) http://bit.ly/W6YDd
  
  
• Dermatology Online Journal is a free open access journal supported by UC-Davis, Creative Commons license http://bit.ly/kzA3r
  
  
• FDA requires a black box warning for Chantix and Zyban for "Serious Mental Health Events" http://bit.ly/TZ1po

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