Drug repurposing to treat asthma and allergic disorders: Progress and prospects

Allergy and atopic asthma have continued to become more prevalent in modern society despite the advent of new treatments, representing a major global health problem. Common medications such as antihistamines and steroids can have undesirable long‐term side‐effects and lack efficacy in some resistant patients. Biologic medications are increasingly given to treatment‐resistant patients, but they can represent high costs, complex dosing and...