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8 Feb 2010Allergy vaccination is traditionally administered as subcutaneous injections or sublingual droplets. ALK-Abell’s aims to extend the use of allergy vaccination by introducing convenient, tablet-based vaccines, thereby offering many more patients a causal allergy treatment. Allergy-desensitization shots (immunotherapy) may help if your child has allergic asthma that can’t be easily controlled by avoiding asthma triggers or [...]
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25 Jan 2010Childhood asthma is now a major health problem in Australia with 31% of West Australian children having been diagnosed with the condition. Chronic inflammation of the airways is also a major problem with 12% of the population reporting wheeze severe enough to disturb sleep. Children also spent much more time outside playing in the dirt [...]