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Asthma treatments: new and emerging therapies
Author(s) -
Calhoun Karen H.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international forum of allergy and rhinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.503
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2042-6984
pISSN - 2042-6976
DOI - 10.1002/alr.21611
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , intensive care medicine , immunology
Background As part of this primer, this article is intended to introduce new and emerging therapies for treating asthma. Methods A PubMed search was performed for the years 2013 through 2015 for asthma review, asthma treatment, asthma therapy, and asthma new. Subset searches were additionally performed as suggested by information contained in the first round of searches. Results There is continuing work toward the identification of additional cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma. Many of these suggest additional targets for therapy. New pharmaceuticals, biologics, and procedures are reviewed in greater depth. Conclusion This is a summary of new and emerging asthma therapies.