Table 1. Current status of immunotherapy in asthma. Subcutaneous and sublingual immunotherapies are effective ways to treat allergic asthma, when appropriate allergens are selected for use.

The use of adjuvants in immunotherapy is determined by the need to reduce the risk of anaphylaxis during treatment, while enhancing immunogenicity. Aluminum-adsorbed allergen has been the most ...

Odds for desensitization and remission fell as patients missed consecutive doses of peanut oral immunotherapy, according to a ...

Medications that target inflammation, such as immunotherapy and steroids, treat allergic asthma, a common type of asthma.

What is oral immunotherapy? Learn how this new therapy could help children treat their peanut allergies, but how there is ...

Approximately 45,000 patients have begun using omalizumab for food allergy in the year since its approval by the FDA, Ahmar Iqbal, MD, therapeutic area lead for respiratory and influenza at Genentech, ...

Asthma & Immunology in San Diego. Advertisement By comparison, only 19% of children could do the same when given a shorter round of omalizumab followed by months of oral immunotherapy, a treatment ...

Oral immunotherapy remains an effective option ... Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. NIAID funds the ongoing trial ...

New research, led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center investigators and sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), finds that ...

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Allergy immunotherapy, commonly known as desensitization or hypo-sensitization, offers long-term relief to allergy sufferers by modifying the body’s immune response. With a growing number of ...

Omalizumab, marketed as Xolair, proved more effective than oral immunotherapy (OIT) in treating multi-food allergies in individuals with severe sensitivities to common food allergens.