"a class of drugs developed for osteoporosis appears effective in preventing the allergic reaction from being triggered."
... am I the only one who thought "surely someone taking this drug for osteoporosis also has asthma? See if it's helped."
... am I the only one who thought "surely someone taking this drug for osteoporosis also has asthma? See if it's helped."
Drugs are very specific and dosage and application (delivery mechanism) are quite important. For example clioquinol a drug used to treat fungal infections most commonly "Athlete's Foot" has now been proven to be very effective at slowing down and even reversing the neural degeneration in Alzheimer patients to a point in which persistent treatment might prevent the onset of dementia altogether.
And as you might guess it wasn't discovered when some one had both a fungal infection and Alzheimer and got "cured" simply because the topical application of clioquinol does absolutely squat in a case of Alzheimer and for the "drug" to become Alzheimer medicine an application method which allows it to breach the blood brain barrier is required, as well as a completely different dosage than one would find in a topical cream.