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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Thousands of people go through life believing they are allergic to penicillin, but studies, including one just conducted at Vanderbilt University ...

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 ...

A direct oral penicillin challenge sufficed to remove an incorrect penicillin allergy label on people considered to have a low-risk history, the international PALACE trial found. Just 0.5% of ...

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 ...

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 ...