Omalizumab Increases the Reaction Threshold for Peanut and Other Common Food Allergies
Study highlights a valuable option for safe and effective food allergy treatment. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sixteen weeks of omalizumab results in a higher tolerated threshold for multiple food allergies according to new research presented today at the 2024 American... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 25, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI SVY Source Type: news
Xolair for food allergies: How it works and what it costs
Kevin Wang and Annie Marqueling’s son Liam was 8 months old when he broke out in hives all over his body after eating a few bits of a scrambled egg. An allergy test revealed Liam was allergic to eggs, as well as peanuts and tree nuts, and for the next year, the entire family avoided foods that…#kevinwang #anniemarquelings #wang #paloalto #xolair #sharonchinthrajah #stanforduniversity #chinthrajah #fda #annalsofallergy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Roche's Xolair reduces reactions to severe food allergies in study
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What to Know About Xolair and Food Allergies
The drug does not completely prevent reactions, but it can reduce the risks posed by trace amounts of food allergens. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Allergies Food Children and Childhood Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Immune System Clinical Trials Research Health Insurance and Managed Care Source Type: news
Drug Drastically Reduces Children ’s Reactions to Traces of Food Allergens
Xolair cuts the risk of dangerous reactions after exposure to minute amounts of allergens, researchers reported. But children taking it still must avoid risky foods. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Allergies Food Peanuts Children and Childhood Research Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Immune System Eggs Milk Clinical Trials American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology New England Journal of Medicine Genentech Source Type: news
Asthma drug limits serious reactions to allergy-triggering foods, study says
A drug approved to treat allergic asthma and chronic hives can limit children ' s dangerous allergic responses to small amounts of allergy-triggering foods, a new study reveals. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An Asthma Drug Can Drastically Reduce Food Allergies
About 20 million people in the U.S.—including four million children—have food allergies. Now, there’s a new way to reduce their risk of severe allergic reactions. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the drug omalizumab, or Xolair, allows people with food allergies to tolerate higher doses of allergenic foods before developing a reaction after an accidental exposure. It also leads to milder reactions if they are exposed.
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The drug was originally approved more than two decades ago to treat allergic asthma. But because of this ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer ’s?
Studies suggest the BCG jab discovered a century ago could provide a cheap and effective way of boosting the immune system to protect people from developing the conditionScientific discoveries can emerge from the strangest places. In early 1900s France, the doctor Albert Calmette and the veterinarian Camille Gu érin aimed to discover how bovine tuberculosis was transmitted. To do so, they first had to find a way of cultivating the bacteria. Sliced potatoes – cooked with ox bile and glycerine – proved to be the perfect medium.As the bacteria grew, however, Calmette and Gu érin were surprised to find thateach generatio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Robson Tags: Alzheimer's Immunology Science Society Health Medical research Biochemistry and molecular biology Tuberculosis Vaccines and immunisation Dementia Source Type: news
Omalizumab Limits Dangerous Reactions To Allergy Triggering Food
Study finds a drug that binds to allergy-causing antibodies can protect children from dangerous reactions to accidentally eating allergy-triggering foods (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - February 25, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Food Allergies Source Type: news
Benralizumab Matches Mepolizumab for Rare Vasculitis
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Treatment with benralizumab (Fasenra) was noninferior to mepolizumab (Nucala) for relapsing or refractory eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), the randomized MANDARA trial showed.
Among 140 patients... (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - February 24, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Antibody reduces allergic reactions to multiple foods in NIH clinical trial
Drug can help protect kids with multiple food allergies during accidental exposure. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - February 23, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Poised to be first widely consumed gene-edited animals, virus-resistant pigs trot toward market
Pigs, cattle, and other livestock with edited genes are still far from most dinner plates, but a U.K. company has taken a big step toward the supermarket by engineering several commercial breeds of pigs to be resistant to a virus that devastates the swine industry. The firm, Genus plc, hopes that by year’s end the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will formally approve the pigs for widespread human consumption, a first for a gene-edited animal.
Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal geneticist at the University of California, Davis, is cheering the news. “There’s no point having a pig getting sick and dying if t...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 23, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Infographic: Medical Blogs That Grab Doctors' Attention Infographic: Medical Blogs That Grab Doctors' Attention
Several of the interesting medical blogs that have caught physicians ' eyes, on topics from injury prevention to the life of a medical student, are highlighted.Medscape (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 23, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Article Source Type: news
Europe Greenlights Two Avian Flu Vaccines Europe Greenlights Two Avian Flu Vaccines
The vaccines, Celldemic and Incellipan, protect against the H5N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 23, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Travere Drug for Rare Kidney Condition Recommended for EU Approval Travere Drug for Rare Kidney Condition Recommended for EU Approval
Vifor Pharma and partner Travere Therapeutics on Friday won an endorsement for approval from the European Union ' s drug regulator for their drug Filspari, part of an industry...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 23, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Nephrology Source Type: news
