The intake of antihistamines with CNS depressing side effects leads to a multiple increase of risk for accidents with lethal results in traffic. 12 special pharmacopsychological trials, e.g. at the Ro...
In the compound 48/80 lethality test in rats, which is based on the specific activation of mast cells, astemizole was found to be a potent, long-acting and orally very effective inhibitor of anaphylac...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning in February about the potentially serious drug interactions associated with the prescription anti-allergy drug astemizole (Hismanal). Side effec...
The non-sedating antihistamine Astemizole seems to approach all the major characteristics of the ideal histamine H1 antagonist, according to a comprehensive review of 54 clinical trials and clinical u...
From the start of the Astemizole clinical investigations, until now the results of 39 trials including more than 2300 patients are available. These results show that Astemizole is an effective and saf...