Matteo Ferrando1, Diego Bagnasco, Fulvio Braido, Gilda Varricchi, Giorgio W Canonica. 1. aDIMI Department of Internal Medicine, Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, University of Genoa, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa bDepartment of Translational Medical Sciences, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Naples Federico II, Napels, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article realizes an overview on the world of biological and biosimilar drugs in allergic and immunologic diseases' treatment strategies. We started talking about the history of asthma treatment's progresses, continuing to daily biological therapies, concluding with the economic point of view. RECENT FINDINGS: Nowadays, the only pharmacological-biological approach approved for allergic diseases is omalizumab. Several other monoclonal antibodies are currently running premarketing studies but the costs of these therapies are difficult to be sustained by healthcare systems. SUMMARY: Several biological treatments have gone or are going off-patent, opening the drug market to biosimilars. In this way, in future, it will be possible to reduce health costs and increase accessibility to therapies that currently are not affordable to all patients.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article realizes an overview on the world of biological and biosimilar drugs in allergic and immunologic diseases' treatment strategies. We started talking about the history of asthma treatment's progresses, continuing to daily biological therapies, concluding with the economic point of view. RECENT FINDINGS: Nowadays, the only pharmacological-biological approach approved for allergic diseases is omalizumab. Several other monoclonal antibodies are currently running premarketing studies but the costs of these therapies are difficult to be sustained by healthcare systems. SUMMARY: Several biological treatments have gone or are going off-patent, opening the drug market to biosimilars. In this way, in future, it will be possible to reduce health costs and increase accessibility to therapies that currently are not affordable to all patients.
Authors: Matteo Ferrando; Diego Bagnasco; Gilda Varricchi; Stefano Bernardi; Alice Bragantini; Giovanni Passalacqua; Giorgio Walter Canonica Journal: Allergy Asthma Immunol Res Date: 2017-01 Impact factor: 5.764
Authors: Diego Bagnasco; Matteo Ferrando; Gilda Varricchi; Francesca Puggioni; Giovanni Passalacqua; Giorgio Walter Canonica Journal: Front Med (Lausanne) Date: 2017-08-31