Approximately 2% of adults and 4% to 8% of children have food allergies in the U.S., with food-induced anaphylaxis resulting in roughly 30,000 emergency department visits, 2,000 hospitalizations, and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A sublingual film may be able to deliver epinephrine as effectively as intramuscular injections and provide an alternate pathway for urgent treatment of allergic anaphylaxis, a ...

Health Canada has approved the first needle-free epinephrine treatment for severe allergic reactions: a nasal spray called ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first needle-free alternative to the EpiPen on Friday, a single-use epinephrine nasal spray for the emergency treatment of allergic reactions, including ...

Expired medications that can be harmful include insulin, epinephrine, and liquid antibiotics. Other types of medications may ...

Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with shockable rhythm who received epinephrine within 4 minutes of a first defibrillator shock had better outcomes than those who received ...

In the largest randomized, placebo-controlled trial of its kind, use of epinephrine (adrenaline) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was associated with a small increase in survival at 30 days, but at ...

When a third-grade student who had been stung by a wasp developed welts on his neck and had trouble breathing, school nurse Amanda Williams had the necessary dose of epinephrine to counter the ...

The Food and Drug Administration, in a surprise move, has decided not to approve an epinephrine nasal spray that would have been the first needle-free alternative to epinephrine autoinjectors, ...

Epinephrine nasal solutions from BPI Labs and Endo USA should not be used, according to the FDA. Similarities between the packaging for certain intranasal and intravenous epinephrine products may ...

(Reuters Health) - EpiPens and other autoinjectors filled with epinephrine to treat severe allergic reactions may still be potent enough to work many months past their labeled expiration date, ...

People who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are most likely to live, and to do so with less disability, when they receive epinephrine within the first 5 minutes of emergency medical ...