A new initiative at the Portage Clinic is helping patients determine whether they're truly allergic to penicillin, ...

People are not born allergic to things, but they can be born with a genetic tendency to become allergic to things to which ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

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Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the bacteria that causes Lyme that tend to pool in the liver and ...

Urticaria is complicated to diagnose by its symptomatic overlap with other skin conditions and the frequent misclassification ...

Discover the 6 most common causes of mouth rashes in children beyond food allergies, from acidic foods to infections, and ...

New research suggests that lingering cell wall fragments from the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, may be responsible for persistent symptoms long after antibiotic treatment.

It requires parenteral administration, and, as the drug became more widely used, allergies arose (up to 10% of patients may report penicillin allergy). [8] Also, in resource poor settings ...

Will Bulsiewicz, M.D. is a respected gastroenterologist who wrote “Fiber Fueled.” Today’s column is based on this book. For ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon - a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop ...