Article: Profile: Possible new way to treat people suffering from allergies

DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
03-27-2005
Profile: Possible new way to treat people suffering from allergies

Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host:

Allergies can be more than an annoyance. For some people, they can be life-threatening. Until now the only way to treat allergies was to avoid the trigger or undergo a long course of allergy shots, which don't work for everyone. Now scientists have come up with a neat trick to tag allergens with a kind of a white flag that tells the overexcited immune system to back off. NPR's Nell Boyce reports.

NELL BOYCE reporting:

Claudine Abaid(ph) used to have a cat; now she has cat allergies.

Ms. CLAUDINE ABAID ...

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