Looking Ahead: Allergies
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Looking ahead
Allergy diagnosis and treatments are changing and improving as doctors gradually understand more about the allergic response at a cellular and molecular level.
Already, some of the developments in the treatment of asthma and allergic disease include newer versions of old drugs that cause fewer side effects, last longer, or work better. Newer ways of delivering asthma medicines make it easier to get the medication you need when and where you need it and do not cause damage to the ozone layer of the earth’s atmosphere (because they do not use fluorinated hydrocarbons for propellants). And there’s now another treatment for asthma, omalizumab (Xolair), that specifically targets IgE.
| Last updated: | August 21, 2006 |
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| Reviewed By: | Faculty of Harvard Medical School |
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