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.

• Increased eosinophils in descending and sigmoid colon are an important clue towards a diagnosis of drug-related colitis. Drug-related colitis caused by NSAIDs (70%), antiplatelet agents (19%) and oestroprogestinic agents (11%) http://bit.ly/QpjWT
  
  
• Budesonide treatment for 12 months does not increase the risk of pneumonia in patients with COPD http://bit.ly/1PntiS
  
  
• Asthma prevalence in Bavaria was 4.8% in F and 4.5% in M; only 61.4% received any anti-asthmatic pharmacotherapy. Only 52.8% of asthma patients in Bavaria were treated in accordance with guidelines. http://bit.ly/CSQMK
  
  
• Children's Hospital Boston blogs about its first patient to enter its milk desensitization study http://bit.ly/1ORbvO
  
  
• TV report promotes SLIT: Doctors Seek More Convenient Way To Fight Allergies http://bit.ly/rdeJS
  
  
• Oral medications led to better asthma outcomes compared with inhaled steroids because patients were more likely to take them http://bit.ly/20qI7g -- WellPoint (insurer)-funded study shows that montelukast "may be a reasonable alternative to ICS" when patients don't use ICS http://bit.ly/3l0PKQ
  
  

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