Background Allergen specific immunotherapy is an effective treatment of allergic rhinitis. It is most commonly administered as repeated subcutaneous injections or as a daily sublingual tablet during 3-5 years. In order to shorten the treatment duration previous studies have evaluated the use of intralymphatic injections (ILIT) with promising results. This study assesses safety and efficacy of I...

INTRODUCTION The once-daily 300 index of reactivity (IR) house dust mite (HDM) tablet (Actair®; Stallergenes Greer, Antony, France/Shionogi & Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan) is the first sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) tablet to be approved for the treatment of HDM-induced allergic rhinitis. Areas covered: This drug profile reviews the current body of evidence on the efficacy, safety and tolerability o...

BACKGROUND Suboxone, a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone in sublingual tablet form, was recently approved in the United States for management of opioid dependence. Little information exists regarding the potential for opioid toxicity after Suboxone exposure in the pediatric population. We report a case of opioid toxicity after exposure to Suboxone in a pediatric patient and a review of ...

Background: The optimal regimen has still to be determined for the use of misoprostol in the surgical termination of pregnancy in the early second trimester. Objective: To compare the outcomes of two different regimens for cervical priming with misoprostol before dilatation and evacuation (D & E) in 13 weeks 16 weeks gestation pregnancy terminations. Methods: A retrospective analysis was perfor...

Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) use in the United States to date has been limited, despite common use and demonstrated efficacy elsewhere in the world. This is largely in part due to lack of FDA-approved SLIT products, lack of established dosing and administration guidelines, and cost concerns. Several recent studies have demonstrated efficacy and safety of two sublingual grass tablets and one ...

Immunotherapy is the only treatment for allergy that has the potential to alter the natural course of the disease. Sublingual immunotherapy for grass pollen-induced rhinoconjunctivitis has been developed to make immunotherapy available to a broader group of allergic patients. Here, a safe dose range and the safety during daily sublingual administration were investigated for a new tablet-based s...

Oromucosal delivery of drugs promotes rapid absorption and high bioavailability, with subsequent almost immediate onset of pharmacological effect. However, many oromucosal delivery systems are compromised by the possibility of the patient swallowing the active substance before it has been released and absorbed locally into the systemic circulation. This paper introduces a new tablet system for ...