Are Asthma and Childhood Allergies Related?

How Treating Allergies in Children May Help Them Avoid Asthma Asthma  and Allergies seem to run hand in hand. This illness effects millions of children world wide as well. If one or both parents of child has asthma; the chances of that child inheriting it is very...

Understanding RAST-based Allergen Immunotherapy

Allergen immunotherapy is the administration of specific allergens repeatedly to patients that are proven to have IgE-mediated allergies to protect against inflammatory reactions and allergic symptoms associated with the exposure to those allergens. It is a practice...

Understanding Allergic and Non-Allergic Rhinitis

Rhinitis is the fancy medical term for inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose, triggered by a viral infection or by allergic reaction. It results in symptoms like runny nose, sneezing, itching, congestion, etc. There’s also the dreaded post-nasal drip...

Federal and State Anti-Kickback Law (AKS) (Part 2)

As discussed in my first blog post of this series (link here), the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) provides criminal penalties, classified as a felony, punishable of up to five years in prison and fines of up to $25,000.00 for any individual or entity that...