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With the Decongestant SNAFU, the FDA Tries Something New
It’s easy to understand how a medicine like phenylephrine got onto pharmacy shelves in the first place. The common decongestant, used most often as an ingredient in multidrug cold medications like DayQuil and Sudafed PE, was initially designated as “safe and effective” by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1976, when the agency was newly—and less stringently than today—greenlighting drugs that had been on the market for years before the agency had established any efficacy standards. After a full review of 14 studies (12 unpublished and two published) from pharmaceutical companies—...
Source: TIME: Health - September 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Anti-allergen monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of allergies
ConclusionThe development of anti-allergen antibody therapies offers great potential for the treatment of allergies. Of interest, the efficacy of passive immunization approaches will likely extend beyond allergen neutralization as in the presence of the allergen they might contribute to long-lasting disease modification.
Source: Allergo Journal International - August 15, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Primary Prevention of Allergy - Is It Feasible?
Allergy Asthma Immunol Res. 2023 Jul;15(4):419-436. doi: 10.4168/aair.2023.15.4.419.ABSTRACTThe allergy epidemic has been attributed to environmental influences related to urbanization and the modern lifestyle. In this regard, various theories exploring the role of microbes (hygiene, old friends, microbiota, and biodiversity hypotheses), and the epithelial barrier (epithelial, dual allergen exposure and vitamin D hypotheses) have been proposed. These hypotheses have guided clinical studies that led to the formulation of intervention strategies during the proposed window of opportunity dubbed as the "first thousand days." T...
Source: Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Research - July 20, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Pauline Poh-Lin Chan Ng Elizabeth Huiwen Tham Bee-Wah Lee Source Type: research
