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New mobile tool determines if a patient is low risk for true allergy to penicillin

Is your patient truly allergic to penicillin? Or is it a misdiagnosed allergy that prevents you, their doctor, from providing them with first-tier care? Created and developed in BC, the new Penicillin Allergy De-... Read More

Use of quality improvement science to improve the accuracy of drug allergy status in pediatric patients after allergist assessments

Background Drug allergy assessments are an integral part of an allergist’s clinical practice. Patients who are assessed formally by an allergist may have true drug allergies and should avoid the medication in... Read More

BC Society of Allergy and Immunology statement on the climate crisis

We, allergists and immunologists of British Columbia, working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Indigenous peoples, want to raise our imperative concerns about the climate crisis, including... Read More

Empowering community physicians to remove erroneous labels of childhood penicillin allergy

Beta-lactams, particularly penicillins and their derivatives, are among the most commonly prescribed medications for children globally,[1,2] with common indications for the ambulatory, inpatient, and perioperative... Read More