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Emergency Epinephrine Act
SRxA’s Word on Health is pleased to start the week with some good news. Last Friday a new federal bill known as the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act was introduced in the Senate. The Bill...
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Be S.A.F.E.
SRxA’s Word on Health was deeply saddened to hear of the seven-year-old girl from Chesterfield County, Virginia who died this week after suffering an allergic reaction at school. According to news...
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Allergic to Valentine’s Day?
Does Valentine’s Day make you sick? Those of us who don’t expect to receive cards and flowers tomorrow, would probably rather fast-forward to February 15th than endure a day of being surrounded by...
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Allergic to Running?
Earlier this week I posted on facebook, asking if any of my friends wanted to join me in an Iron Girl Triathlon this fall, So far, there has been a distinct lack of takers. Or to be more precise,...
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Food Allergy Organizations Unite to Combat the Crisis and Find a Cure
In the United States, food allergies send a person to the emergency room every three minutes and account for over a million emergency department visits each year. For about 140,000 patients each year,...
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Back-to-school lesson on food allergies
According to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), nearly six million children across the United States suffer from food allergies. Of those, more than 300,000 were admitted to hospital in...
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Modern Family’s Emmy winning actress takes on the most important role of her...
Actress Julie Bowen, recently awarded her second Emmy for her role in the hit TV comedy “Modern Family,” started a more serious role last week: raising awareness about life-threatening childhood...
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Doctors Deficient in Anaphylaxis Care
Having just returned from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) annual meeting, we’re spoiled for choice of news. But among all the science there was one stand out shocker. In...
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Avoiding Anaphylaxis this Advent
Christmas parties, meals out with friends and family, stockings full of candy, chestnuts roasting on the open fire… While all this sounds like great fun, there’s a risk that more people than usual will...
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Allergic to Bullying?
As if having a food allergy wasn’t bad enough, one in three children who do, also experience bullying. Worse still, nearly half of parents surveyed (47.9%) were not aware of the bullying. Almost 8% of...
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Emergency! Epinephrine in Anaphylaxis: under-use and inappropriate use by EMS
Despite a decline in anaphylaxis deaths over the past 25 years, lack of epinephrine and incorrect administration of epinephrine still play a significant role in mortality. According to a retrospective...
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Welcome to World Allergy Week
Today marks the start of the World Allergy Organization’s (WAO) annual World Allergy Week. During the 2013 event, WAO together with its 93 national Member Societies, will be addressing the topic of...
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COPD & asthma linked to poor anaphylaxis outcomes
Researchers have found that patients with chronic lung diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are significantly more likely to have poor outcomes when hospitalized...
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Protecting Kids with temporary tattoos
Parents of the three million or so kids in the US who have been diagnosed with food allergies whose kids have severe food allergies know they can’t be too careful. One bite of the food they are...
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Kudos to Canada
This morning, SRxA’s Word on Health salutes the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, for its pioneering lead in anaphylaxis safety. Hamilton is destined to become the first city in the world to require...
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Anaphylaxis Legislation gets Presidential Seal of Approval
SRxA is delighted to announce that earlier this week President Obama signed into law the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act. During a week in which Obama and his new healthcare.gov website...
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