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Category Archives: News

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15 Dec , 2020

COVID-19 vaccination with the Pfizer/BioNTech product in children with allergies

Peter Arkwright
Doctor, News, News, Patient
Children with food and pollen allergy, but no history of reaction to the COVID vaccine can receive the COVID vaccine with standard precautions, either...
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12 Dec , 2020

2020 Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) no longer recommends salbutamol for first line therapy

Peter Arkwright
Doctor, News, News, Patient, Uncategorised
Although uncommon, deaths from asthma are always tragic. New 2020 guidelines from GINA no longer recommends SABAs for first-line use in asthma except...
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17 Nov , 2020

Latest Cutting-Edge Research from our Network – Staph-induced eczema

Peter Arkwright
Doctor, News, News, Patient
Skin bacteria, particularly Staphylococcus aureus are known to trigger flares in eczema. Drs Arkwright and Pennock working at the University of Manche...
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5 Oct , 2020

Peanut desensitisation with AR101 oral immunotherapy (OIT)

Peter Arkwright
Doctor, News, News, Patient, Uncategorised
Dr Vibha Sharma was a principle investigator at the Manchester site involved in this study recently published in Lancet Child Adolescent Health. AR101...
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