Patients with CSU have an elevated risk of anxiety and depression, necessitating comprehensive management strategies. Research is focused on identifying biomarkers and clinical characteristics to ...

For over a decade, Ruth has written for multiple outlets providing patient education, including Health. She has written for health student education companies, collaborating on an anatomy textbook ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Chronic idiopathic urticaria, also known as chronic spontaneous urticaria, is a form of hives that occurs without an apparent singular cause. Urticaria means hives, or an itchy rash of welts on the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “A significant percentage of [chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU)] patients don’t respond to antihistamines,” ...

Urticaria affects both children and adults, with chronic cases more common in women, and often presents in emergency or dermatology settings. Conditions like vasculitic urticaria, erythema multiforme, ...

In the 50-center international CURE study, diagnosis was delayed in 24.4% of the patients by at least a year. Pavel Kolkhir, MD, study lead and head of the chronic urticaria program in the Institute ...