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Article: Study: Allergy Shots Block Symptoms
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- August 11, 1999
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LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-11-1999
Study: Allergy Shots Block Symptoms
Monthly allergy shots can lessen the torment of hay fever for years after the shots are stopped, a study found.
Researchers at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London found that patients who received immunotherapy monthly for three or four years reported weaker symptoms of the grass-pollen allergy three years after stopping the treatment.
``They may never relapse into symptoms as severe as what they had originally,'' said Samantha Walker, one of the study's authors. ``In carefully selected patients, this form of treatment is extremely effective.''
The research is reported in ...
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