Medicare Part B may cover some types of allergy tests if a person meets certain criteria. Allergy testing falls under the “clinical diagnostic laboratory tests” category for Medicare. To qualify for ...

Medicare Part B may cover some types of allergy tests if a person meets certain criteria. Allergy testing falls under the “clinical diagnostic laboratory tests” category for Medicare. To qualify for ...

A doctor can diagnose food allergies using a variety of tests, including skin prick tests, blood tests, and oral food challenges. Home test kits are also available, though they have several downsides ...

At-home food sensitivity tests, specifically IgG tests, do not reliably identify triggers for food-induced conditions. Allergy societies recommend against their use for food sensitivities and ...

Allergic diseases, which include allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, allergic dermatitis, allergic conjunctivitis, anaphylaxis, food or drug allergic reactions, are major diseases involving ...

In children evaluated for a possible macrolide allergy, intradermal testing with a suspected culprit drug at 0.05 mg/mL showed high specificity (92.7%) but limited sensitivity. To confirm an allergy ...

In the world of allergy diagnostics, the familiar blood samples and unpleasant skin prick procedures for testing allergen tolerance may soon be a thing of the past. A team of researchers has ...

Results from a retrospective cohort study demonstrated the safety of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention that uses guideline-directed beta-lactam antibiotic test-dose procedures in hospitalized ...

From hayfever to gluten, allergies are on the rise in the UK. A third of the population are now officially diagnosed with at least one allergy, with 10 million people alone suffering from hayfever.