North West Paediatric Allergy Annual Study Day 2021
Our 2022 North West Paediatric Allergy Study Day will be on Thursday the 17th March. Focus is on effect of allergies on different parts of the body (s...
Fatal anaphylaxis: Counting all Cases
Dr Vibha Sharma, Consultant Paediatric Allergist at RMCH and Lead for the UK Fatal Anaphylaxis Registry highlights the fact in the British Medical Jou...
COVID-19 vaccination with the Pfizer/BioNTech product in children with allergies
Children with food and pollen allergy, but no history of reaction to the COVID vaccine can receive the COVID vaccine with standard precautions, either...
2020 Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) no longer recommends salbutamol for first line therapy
Although uncommon, deaths from asthma are always tragic. New 2020 guidelines from GINA no longer recommends SABAs for first-line use in asthma except...
Latest Cutting-Edge Research from our Network – Staph-induced eczema
Skin bacteria, particularly Staphylococcus aureus are known to trigger flares in eczema. Drs Arkwright and Pennock working at the University of Manche...
Peanut desensitisation with AR101 oral immunotherapy (OIT)
Dr Vibha Sharma was a principle investigator at the Manchester site involved in this study recently published in Lancet Child Adolescent Health. AR101...