Islander great Gillies donates for emergency room From Newsday With his recent $225,000 donation for a new pediatric emergency care center at Huntington Hospital, retired New York Islander Clark Gillies is just one shy of a hat trick. The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has appointed Dr. Richard Gralla as chief of hematology-oncology and vice president of cancer services at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Gralla, whose specialty is lung cancer, said he will focus on quality-of-life issues for cancer...

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Many children stung by fire ants in southeast US From Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that many children in the southeastern United States are stung by fire ants, as evidenced by signs of an immune system reaction to the fire ant venom. Partridge of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and colleagues suggest that physicians practicing in this area need to be careful when interpreting antibody test results in children who don't have a history of severe allergic reaction, also referred to as anaphylaxis, following a fire ant...

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Early clinical predictors of remission of peanut allergy in children From www.sciencedirect.com Methods A survey was mailed to caregivers of 192 patients, below the age of 18 years, with a diagnosis of peanut allergy in a suburban private allergy practice. At the time of diagnosis, patients with a history of allergic reactions to peanuts were significantly older (2.4 years) than those without a history of prior reactions to peanuts (1.6 years) (p0.01). Objective We estimated the prevalence of peanut allergy in Montreal by administering questionnaires regarding peanut ingestion to...

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RCP: New allergy guideline for the secondary care of patients with ... From Politics.co.uk The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology has prepared a guideline for the management of allergic and non-allergic rhinitis for practising physicians in secondary care. This is a totally revised guideline on allergic and non-allergic rhinitis produced by the BSACI Standards of Care Committee in consultation with BSACI members and replaces the previous rhinitis management guideline by the BSACI. Members of the BSACI may download the guidelines from the BSACI members only webpage...

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Popular Allergy Medicine Now Sold Over The Counter From MyFox Kansas City Millions of adults and kids with allergies have taken the prescription drug Zyrtec. Her toddler has taken the allergy drug Zyrtec by prescription. The good news, over the counter Zyrtec will cost less, even for many with prescription drug coverage. "For kids younger than that, I would strongly recommend you not get the Zyrtec with the D, just get Zyrtec," Portnoy said. Dr. Portnoy emphasized Zyrtec is an allergy medicine only and doesn't have the risks recently associated with children's...

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