New peanut al­ler­gy ther­a­pies aren’t as ef­fec­tive — or near­ly as in­ex­pen­sive — as ab­sti­nence, says ICER

While peanut al­ler­gy ther­a­pies from Aim­mune and DBV Tech­nolo­gies are locked in a race to the fin­ish line, in­flu­en­tial cost-ef­fec­tive­ness watch­dog ICER has de­ter­mined that nei­ther ther­a­py of­fers su­pe­ri­or net health ben­e­fit com­pared to strict peanut avoid­ance, in a fi­nal re­port pub­lished on Wednes­day.

Tra­di­tion­al­ly, peanut al­ler­gies are man­aged by avoid­ance, but the threat of ac­ci­den­tal ex­po­sure can­not be nul­li­fied.

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