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Novel peanut allergy treatment shown to be safe, effective and lasting

Medical Xpress

A four-year clinical trial led by Edwin Kim, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that an increased dosage of a unique type of peanut allergy immunotherapy continues to show promise for children.

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Efficacy of an Allergy Clinical Decision Rule to Enable Direct Oral Penicillin Challenge

JAMA Internal Medicine

This randomized clinical trial aims to determine whether a direct oral penicillin challenge is noninferior to the standard of care of penicillin skin testing followed by an oral challenge in patients with a low-risk penicillin allergy.

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Complexity in Early Phase Clinical Trials with Dr. Oren Cohen?

Clinical Trial Podcast

To answer these two questions, regulatory authorities around the world require medical product manufacturers to conduct Phase I, also known as early phase clinical trials. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center.

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Oral immunotherapy induces remission of peanut allergy in some young children

Scienmag

A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth. The immunotherapy consisted of a daily oral dose of peanut flour for 2.5

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Reducing lung transplant rejection aim of clinical trial funded with $22 million grant

Scienmag

Physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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November 29, 2022: INSPIRE Demonstration Project Joins the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory is excited to welcome the INSPIRE Demonstration Project to its portfolio of innovative, large-scale pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems. Shruti Gohil. Shruti Gohil will serve as INSPIRE’s lead investigator. Dr. Susan Huang. Dr. Richard Platt.

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Antibody treatment improves chronic food allergy symptoms in young adults, study finds

Medical Xpress

A weekly dose of dupilumab, a monoclonal antibody, led to a reduction of symptoms and tissue improvement in young adults and adolescents with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.