Woman injecting herself in the thigh. The 60-year-old male patient presented to the ED complaining of "the worst pain in his life" in his right thigh. A rare case of clostridial gas gangrene following ...

Woman’s hand holding a unused epinephrine Auto injector. The device is commonly used to treat the life threatening immune response known as anaphylaxis. A survey explored triggers for use of ...

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 ...

A brief educational module for internal medicine residents was associated with improved confidence when counseling patients with food allergies on the use of self-injectable epinephrine, a small study ...

My son Thomas has carried around a needle since he entered kindergarten at the age of 5. That was a big responsibility for a small child to carry an injector loaded with lifesaving epinephrine, but ...

ALK announced that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted marketing authorisation for EURneffy® 1 mg, the first and only needle-free adrenaline treatment for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Epinephrine autoinjectors may have little effect on surviving anaphylaxis events. Research is needed in ...

The pharmacodynamics profile for 13.2-mg IN epinephrine in the opposite or same nostrils was comparable to that of the 0.3-mg autoinjector and 0.5-mg manual syringe. Intranasal (IN) epinephrine is ...

Patients and general practitioners lack knowledge of how and when to use devices to inject adrenaline after anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions), finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers ...

Doctors prescribe EpiPen (epinephrine injection) to treat anaphylaxis from any cause, including food and medication allergies. Use EpiPen as soon as symptoms start or just after exposure to a known ...