The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xolair (omalizumab) to treat chronic idiopathic urticaria, a form of chronic hives, according to a news release.
Xolair, co-developed and co-promoted by San Francisco-based Genentech and East Hanover, N.J.-based Novartis, is the first medicine approved to treat CIU since H1-antihistamines, according to the news release.
In 2003, Xolair was approved to treat persistent allergic asthma.
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