We recently marked "National Penicillin Allergy Day" on September 28. If you're asking "Why is that a thing?", the answer is that approximately 30 million Americans report an allergy to ...

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.

Cefazolin is safe for surgical site infection prophylaxis in orthopedic procedures for patients with beta-lactam allergies, a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

About 10% of Americans believe they are allergic to penicillin, and approximately 90% of those patients are not actually allergic. As a result, those with the penicillin allergy label are often ...

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 ...

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 ...