Source: John Murawski, NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/20/18


The world’s first treatment for potentially fatal peanut allergies could be available to kids as early as next year, thanks to a successful experiment on peanut-tolerance that will be published Thursday in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The research team, led by UNC-Chapel Hill pediatrics professor Wesley Burks, showed that most children with peanut allergies can build up resistance by ingesting miniscule amounts of peanut and incrementally increasing the daily dosage.

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