Category: Allergy

As the cold weather creeps in, so do brown recluse spiders. True to their name, the brown recluse is a shy, reclusive spider looking for a warm home. Drawn to clutter, closets and complex storage environments, the spiders actually want to stay away from humans. But, if care is not taken, people could find themselves […]

REGiMMUNE Corporation, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing technologies and products for immune disorders, today announced that it has received two separate grants totaling more than $12 million from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and […]

Measures imposed to reduce exposure to nuts are often based on irrational fears of nut allergies and are becoming increasingly sensationalist, according to a doctor on bmj.com today.

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Cytos Biotechnology Ltd (SIX:CYTN) announced today that it has started a phase IIb clinical study with CYT003-QbG10, an allergen-independent immunotherapeutic product candidate for the treatment of allergy and asthma. The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter dose-finding study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of […]

REGiMMUNE Corporation, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing technologies and products for immune disorders, has announced that it has received two separate grants totaling more than $12 million from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and from National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO).

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The number of allergy alerts sent out by national allergy charity The Anaphylaxis Campaign so far this year has exceeded their 2007 record level of 58. The charity has been involved in no fewer than 60 alerts this year. The vast majority of those led to product recalls or withdrawals. The likely […]

Pregnant women who take folic acid supplements may increase the risk of respiratory illness in their infants, according to an article released on December 2, 2008 in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, one of the BMJ Specialist Journals. Folate, or folic acid, is also known as vitamin B9. In the […]

Women can usually keep using the same asthma drugs they were using before they got pregnant. Budesonide sprays are the best studied and can be regarded as safe. More trials of other essential medicines are necessary however. According to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), more data from trials could […]

A team of researchers led by MIT has confirmed that a contaminant found in several batches of the blood-thinner heparin is linked with severe allergic reactions in patients, dozens of whom died after receiving the tainted drug. A study conducted by the researchers provides epidemiological evidence that contaminated batches of heparin produced […]

Allergic reactions to Merck’s human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil are uncommon, and most girls and young women can tolerate further doses in the three-dose regimen, according to a study published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal,

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