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It wasn’t that long ago when asthma and severe allergies, like anaphylaxis, were treated with fumigating powders, caustic vapors, opium and stramonium cigarettes. Patients were debilitated, unable to work, go to school and many died.
 
The last 30 years have brought radical advancements in research, technology, medical devices and treatment. Federally funded evidence-based national asthma and anaphylaxis treatment guidelines are shown to prevent needless death and suffering while reducing healthcare costs.

Yet a new paradigm to cut healthcare costs proposed by the Food and Drug Administration threatens to deliver us back to the dark ages.

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