ACE Inhibitors Linked to Severe Allergic Reactions

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BALTIMORE — Antihypertensive treatment with ACE inhibitors may prime oral allergy syndrome patients for severe reactions, a case-report suggested. One patient on lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril) for a decade went into anaphylaxis after eating an apple …
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Pancreatic cancer patients may benefit from new drug combinations

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Two drug combinations that simultaneously block two major signaling pathways downstream of the protein KRAS, which is aberrantly active in most pancreatic cancers, may provide a new treatment option for patients with this disease, according to …
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Johns Hopkins HIV/AIDS experts receive more than million grants for training

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HIV/AIDS experts at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health have been awarded the grants by the Fogarty International Center's HIV Research Training Program. The award will be …
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