This is the first in an occasional series on the origin of commonly used medicines. When epinephrine was first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, it was essentially a drug without a disease.

Epinephrine and norepinephrine are very similar neurotransmitters and hormones. Epinephrine has slightly more of an effect on your heart, while norepinephrine has more of an effect on your blood ...

New guidelines help non-medics correctly identify acute allergic reactions requiring epinephrine administration ...

Peanut oral immunotherapy is generally safe, but rare, severe immediate allergic reactions may emerge months into treatment, ...

Approximately 2% of adults and 4% to 8% of children have food allergies in the U.S., with food-induced anaphylaxis resulting in roughly 30,000 emergency department visits, 2,000 hospitalizations, and ...

Epinephrine (also called adrenaline) and norepinephrine (also called noradrenaline) have a lot in common. Both are hormones that travel through your body, affecting many tissues and organs. Both also ...

People use epinephrine injections as a medication to treat severe allergic reactions. Epinephrine, also called adrenaline, is a hormone that the adrenal glands produce in the body. People who have ...

For patients in cardiac arrest, administering epinephrine helps to restart the heart but may increase the overall likelihood of death or debilitating brain damage, according to a study. The study ...

China for adults and children (>30 kg) living with severe allergic reactions Pediatrix Therapeutics, which has a license from ...

In the largest randomized, placebo-controlled trial of its kind, use of epinephrine (adrenaline) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was associated with a small increase in survival at 30 days, but at ...

A Prescription Drug User Fee Act target date of January 31, 2026 has been set for the application. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) for epinephrine ...

Anaphylaxis is a serious, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that can affect several organ systems in the body and may threaten breathing and blood circulation. The most common causes of ...