Careful immunotherapy reduces allergic patients' sensitivity to peanuts, study suggests

Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

New research provides additional support for a strategy to reduce the severity of reactions to peanut- repeatedly consuming small amounts of the very food that causes those reactions in the first place, a practice called immunotherapy. One patient's serious reaction, however, highlighted the care that must be taken to keep patients safe.

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