The Lawrence County Health Department has announced an update to its tuberculosis (TB) skin test schedule for February. TB ...

Dr. Adkinson answers the question: 'Tests To Determine A Drug Allergy?' — -- Question: What tests are used to determine if I have a drug allergy? Answer: First of all, the most important test of ...

Dr. Jones answers the question: 'What Do Skin, RAST Test Results Mean?' — -- Question: What do positive and negative skin or RAST tests mean? Answer: In order to diagnose a child or an adult with ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. For people who experienced an allergic reaction to their first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, skin testing ...

In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a reaction of grade 2 or higher were 19.9 times more likely to develop persistent allergy.

Skin allergies are common and often frustrating to diagnose. But new technology could soon help change that. Dr. Alison Bruce, a dermatologist at the Mayo Clinic, is helping to develop an artificial ...

Imagine this: You're at your doctor's office with a sore throat. The nurse asks, "Any allergies?" And without hesitation you reply, "Penicillin." It's something you've said for years – maybe since ...