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Article: Grass Pollen Immunotherapy Improves Patients' Quality of Life.
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- January 31, 2001
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2001 JAN 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Undergoing grass pollen immunotherapy, also called "allergy shots," significantly reduces hay fever symptoms and medication requirements for allergy and asthma patients, according to a study in the January 2001 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Samantha M. Walker, PhD, Imperial College School of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London, United Kingdom, and colleagues in London, Messina, Italy, observed 44 patients who have severe summer hay fever and seasonal asthma triggered by grass pollens.
After observing symptoms for one summer, researchers injected 22 of the ...