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Article: Study: Allergy Shots Block Symptoms
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- August 12, 1999
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LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-12-1999
Study: Allergy Shots Block Symptoms
Monthly allergy shots can lessen the torment of hay fever years after the shots are stopped, according to a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
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 ...