New biologic drugs for asthma: What PCPs need to know. Issue: January 2020. ByEdward A. Bell, PharmD, BCPS. Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on .

If allergic asthma symptoms are constantly disrupting your daily life, even though you use control medications like inhalers, it may be time to add on a biologic. Biologics are medications you ...

Biologics for asthma: Attacking the source of the disease, not the symptoms The future of asthma treatment is here Date: November 5, 2015 Source: American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology ...

Accessibility and Safety of Biologics For Asthma Treatment. Injection site responses,and mild headaches are among the usual side effects of biologics, which are generally well tolerated.

There are 5 biologic medications currently approved for the treatment of severe asthma that have been demonstrated to reduce exacerbations and increase lung function.

Asthma Biologic May Reduce Severe Attacks By More Than 50%. ByNina Shapiro, Contributor. ... The treatment group had a 56% lower rate of annualized asthma exacerbation rate ...

To overcome barriers to biologic care for patients with asthma, personalized treatment is key, according to a speaker at the 16th Annual Allergy, Asthma & Immunology CME Conference.

A study led by researchers at King’s College London has examined whether treatment with benralizumab, a biologic therapy, allowed people with severe eosinophilic asthma to reduce their ICS dose ...

Iftikhar IH, Schimmel M, Bender W, Swenson C, Amrol D. Comparative Efficacy of Anti IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13 Drugs for Treatment of Eosinophilic Asthma: A Network Meta-analysis. Lung , 2018. DOI.org ...

A new injectable drug reduces flare-ups in patients with severe asthma that is not controlled by steroid inhalers alone, two new trials show. The drug, benralizumab, is a biologic that works by kil… ...

Biologics used as an asthma treatment also appear to improve symptoms of coexisting chronic rhinosinusitis in some patients, according to results from a real-world study published in the ...

Fact checked by Jennifer Klump Dupixent (dupilumab), a drug already used to treat atopic dermatitis and asthma, became the first biologic approved for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...