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90% of penicillin allergy labels in Hong Kong found to be false

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A collaborative research team led by Dr. Philip Li from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has pioneered a new nurse-led penicillin allergy triage and testing strategy—the Hong Kong Drug Allergy Delabelling Initiative (HK-DADI), and demonstrated its effectiveness and safety compared to traditional allergy testing.

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Could a monoclonal antibody treat peanut allergy?

Drug Discovery World

IgGenix has made advances towards a peanut allergy therapeutic based on IgG4 monoclonal antibodies. The company’s research data was presented during the 2023 European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress, in Hamburg, Germany. The post Could a monoclonal antibody treat peanut allergy?

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Sesame Allergies Cause FDA to List Sesame as the 9th Major Allergen

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added sesame to its list of major allergens, making it easier for people with sesame allergies to safely consume packaged food without fear of an allergic reaction. Related: Top 3 Allergy Friendly Food Brands. percent of children and adults in the US are allergic to sesame.

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An allergy drug showed promise for MS, but could they prove it?

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What if an over-the-counter allergy medicine could help halt and even reverse multiple sclerosis? And if it did, could patients return to their full capacity? Those were some of the questions first posed in 2013 after a landmark discovery by UC San Francisco neuroscientist Jonah Chan, Ph.D., and physician-scientist Ari Green, MD.

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Rensselaer researchers receive $3.5 million grant for development of COVID antiviral drug

Scienmag

TROY, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Gaetano Montelione and Christopher Cioffi will use a five-year, $3.5 Dr. Montelione is the […].

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Combination treatment could be more effective for cat allergy

Drug Discovery World

New research has shown that standard cat allergy treatment can be enhanced to make it more effective and faster acting, and the benefits last for a year after treatment ends. The findings of the study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, were published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. .

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Research reveals an immune cell that can kill all cancers

Drug Discovery World

Researchers in the US have discovered that a type of immune cell in the human body known to be important for allergy and other immune responses can also attack cancer. In previous research focused on mouse cells, ILC2s had not consistently shown promise when tested for their cancer-killing abilities.

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