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Allergy Medicine
Findings in allergy medicine provide new insights
July 25th, 2005
Reports from the United Kingdom, Malawi and Japan highlight recent research on allergy medicine. Study 1: Researchers review peptide-based therapeutic vaccines for allergic and autoimmune diseases in a recent issue of Nature Medicine. According to a study from England, "Allergic and autoimmune diseases are forms of immune hypersensitivity that increasingly cause chronic ill health. Most current therapies treat symptoms rather than addressing underlying immunological mechanisms. The ability to modify antigen-specific pathogenic responses by therapeutic vaccination offers the prospect of targeted therapy resulting in long-term clinical...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2005-07-25)
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