CLEVELAND, Ohio — There are more than a dozen modern antibiotics in the penicillin family, and an estimated 32 million Americans - around 10% of the population - who report being allergic to them.

(WXYZ) — Penicillin allergies are often discovered among children when they are being treated for common pediatric illnesses like ear infections, and the label ...

A growing number of allergists and public health officials nationwide are pushing to prove that the majority of people who believe they have a penicillin allergy are not, in fact, allergic to the ...

His records indicated that he was diagnosed with a penicillin allergy as a child when he developed a rash after receiving amoxicillin. I believed the next course of action should be to test for a ...

The CDC recommends that nurses improve their evaluation of penicillin allergies. A mnemonic device helped improve nurses’ evaluation of perioperative patients for penicillin allergy. HOUSTON ...

People who mistakenly think they are allergic to penicillin could be “de-labelled” – without undergoing expensive allergy tests – by being safely offered a dose of the antibiotic to check ...

When seeing a patient whose chart notes a penicillin allergy, allergists should be diligent about initiating a conversation, David Khan, MD, told attendees of a presidential plenary session at the ...

Amoxicillin is one of the most common penicillin-based antibiotics prescribed in the UK Millions of people wrongly believe they are allergic to penicillin, which could mean they take longer to ...

Millions of people mistakenly think they are allergic to penicillin, which could mean they are taking less effective antibiotics, new research has found. A 2019 study found between 6% and 10% of ...

Millions of people wrongly believe they are allergic to penicillin, which could mean they take longer to recover after an infection, pharmacists say. About four million people in the UK have the ...