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Article: Drug blunts peanut allergies
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2003
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Drug blunts peanut allergies
Injection given once a month seems to head off severe reactions
By GINA KOLATA New York Times
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Using an experimental drug injected once a month, medical
researchers have blunted peanut allergies, protecting people from
reacting so violently that their lives could be threatened if they
accidentally ate as little as a fraction of a peanut.
An estimated 1.5 million people in the United States are allergic
to peanuts, and 50 to 100 die each year from severe allergic
reactions. The drug, TNX-901, changed sensitivity so that instead of
reacting to half a peanut, patients had no reaction until they ate
nine on average. One-fourth of the subjects ...