July 23 (Bloomberg) — Merck & Co.’s second-quarter profit rose 12 percent on increased demand for the cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil and other new drugs. The company raised its forecast, sending the shares up 6.8 percent, the most in three months.
Net income rose to $1.68 billion, or 77 cents a share, from $1.5 billion, or 69 […]
Lindsay Lohan allegedly amused herself in rehab by wandering around naked to shock male patients and staff.
The Mean Girls star - who recently spent 45 days in Malibu’s Promises Centre to be treated for alcoholism - was reportedly overheard bragging about her nude exploits at Allegra Versace’s birthday party.
A source told National Enquirer magazine: “Lindsay […]
A BABY from West Lothian is taking part in a national study to help discover why children develop an allergy to peanuts.
Seven-month-old eczema sufferer Cameron Brydon, from Livingston, has a 20 per cent chance of developing the allergy due to his condition.
Current advice states that families with a history of eczema or allergies should avoid […]
A new study suggests strong variation in the occurrence of anaphylaxis between the northern and southern U.S. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can be fatal without treatment with epinephrine. The striking north-south differences in EpiPen prescribing, a marker of anaphylaxis risk, currently are without explanation. The investigators hypothesize, however, that low levels of […]
When the body’s immune system overacts, we have what is called an allergy.
An allergy is not an infection. It manifests because of your own body’s immune response.
All our bodies are primed to defend against foreign substances invading it, such as bacteria, viruses etc. This is a natural protective mechanism.
Sometimes, we have […]
A clinic has come up exclusively for patients suffering from Urticaria, a “deceptive” allergy that can be fatal if not treated immediately.
Institute of Allergic and Immunologic Skin Diseases, in Kasba, inaugurated the clinic on Sunday, World Allergy Day.
The clinic will have “all state-of-the-art machines” to diagnose the disease and a counselling wing.
Urticaria, commonly known as […]
U.S. firm Cobalis said Friday low pollen counts may be to blame for why it couldn’t show in a phase 3 trial that its allergy drug PreHistin works.
The company said it was testing its potential treatment against placebo in a trial involving 1,551 patients with moderate to moderately severe seasonal allergic rhinitis, or hay fever.
However, […]
There is currently no way to treat food allergy and the only way for sufferers to manage the problem is to avoid certain foods and make sure they have injectable adrenaline at hand.
Scientists led by Dr Claudio Nicoletti at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich have found that a molecule called Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is […]