Medications: The Leading Cause Of Allergy-Related Deaths

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 19:01 in Health & Medicine

 An analysis of death certificates from 1999 to 2010 has found that medications are the leading cause of allergy-related sudden deaths in the U.S. The study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology also found that the risk of fatal drug-induced allergic reactions was particularly high among older people and African-Americans and that such deaths increased significantly in the U.S. in recent years.   read more

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