Black race was the strongest predictor of T2-high inflammation in 451 children with severe asthma adjusted for social and environmental factors.

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Completing the DTaP primary series was 96.2% effective against pertussis in Alaska children aged 6 months to 6 years during a record 2024 outbreak.

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Schools without stock epinephrine were over 4 times as likely to lack a device in an allergic emergency, a survey of 349 school nurses found.

In a matched cohort of children aged 6 and younger with EoE, dupilumab was linked to less incident asthma than swallowed budesonide (10.5% vs 16.2%).

Non-English-speaking families were far less likely to introduce peanut by 6 months (OR, 0.21) in a 3,170-child study presented at ACAAI 2026.