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Article: Mayo Clinic Seeks Participants for National Research Study on Peanut Allergy.
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2000
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2000 NOV 15 - (NewsRx.com) --
Peanut and tree nut allergy can be a serious condition that affects approximately three million Americans.
There is no cure for peanut allergy, merely symptomatic relief, and there is a lack of public and medical understanding of the condition.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has joined with six other leading medical research centers from across the U.S. to form the Centers for Peanut Allergy Awareness with the purpose of helping to increase understanding of peanut allergy. The medical research centers are currently conducting a peanut allergy study designed to determine if an investigational drug can lessen ...