Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Last year, experts suggested in an article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases that pharmacists should ...

All skin tests doctors commonly use to check for food allergies can provide false negative results, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded — meaning people with potentially life-threatening ...

Results from a multinational study indicate that direct oral challenge (DOC) is a safe and effective strategy for identifying ...

This allergy test, a sometimes unpleasant childhood right of passage, may be a thing of the past someday. New research shows that a urine test can determine if a person has an allergy to a specific ...

Allergy tests are a way to get to the bottom of what's causing your asthma symptoms. They help your doctor find out if allergies trigger your asthma. These tests won't identify asthma triggers such as ...

What is allergy patch testing? Allergy patch testing screens substances to determine the cause of an allergic skin reaction. Patches with different suspected irritants (allergens) are applied to a ...

Results from some medical tests are easy to interpret. If your throat is swabbed for a streptococcal infection and it comes back positive, you know you have strep throat. At-home pregnancy tests are ...