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March 18, 2025: ABATE Infection Analysis Explores Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Previous research had shown the effectiveness of the intervention in ICUs. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality later published a toolkit to help clinical teams reduce hospital-acquired infections based on the intervention materials used in the ABATE Infection trial. Read the full report. Learn more about ABATE Infection.

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Study shows psychosocial effects of peanut allergy

Pharma Times

Research demonstrates that people who live with peanut allergies face isolation and discrimination

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Researchers lay groundwork for potential dog-allergy vaccine

Scienmag

There have been many research efforts describing the nature and progression of dog allergies, but there have been very few applied studies that use this information to try to cure people of dog allergies entirely by artificially inducing immune tolerance.

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How the food allergy sector is benefitting from health tech’s recent boom

pharmaphorum

For the 32 million individuals in the US with food allergies, more research into symptoms, causes, and treatments has been long sought after, but historically underfunded. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which oversees disease research, has a total annual budget equivalent to $120 per person, with only $0.19

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'Black sheep' of helper T cells may hold key to precision allergy treatment

Medical Xpress

A new Nature Immunology study led by University of Pittsburgh and National Institutes of Health researchers sheds light on how a rare type of helper T cell, called Th9, can drive allergic disease, suggesting new precision medicine approaches to treating allergies in patients with high levels of Th9.

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Researchers discover new type of memory B cell that remembers allergies

Pharma Times

The cell could be a target for new immunotherapies for the chronic disease

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90% of penicillin allergy labels in Hong Kong found to be false

Medical Xpress

A collaborative research team led by Dr. Philip Li from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has pioneered a new nurse-led penicillin allergy triage and testing strategy—the Hong Kong Drug Allergy Delabelling Initiative (HK-DADI), and demonstrated its effectiveness and safety compared to traditional allergy testing.