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posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 16 2019, @12:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the nutty-idea dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/dangers-peanut-allergy-drug/597997/

For kids who've already developed a peanut allergy, though, a similar but more controversial treatment is up for approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency is holding a hearing today with the pharmaceutical company and its advocates, expected to inform a final ruling in coming months.

There is currently no "treatment" for a peanut allergy. As it is, patients are told to avoid peanuts. They are prescribed a syringe full of epinephrine (trade name: EpiPen) and taught to inject themselves if needed. Despite much advancement in medical science and technology over the decades, nothing has given families peace of mind that the allergy itself could be treated, or at least tempered. Until now. The new approach involves trying to reprogram the immune system by giving a person ... peanuts.

This might sound dangerous, because it is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/peanut-allergy-children.html
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/first-peanut-allergy-treatment-gains-backing-fda-advisory-panel


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 16 2019, @12:23AM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday September 16 2019, @12:23AM (#894456) Homepage Journal

    We have a link shortener for soylentnews.org links that we use for bender the IRC bot as well as Twitter and FB at sylnt.us. It spurts out https://sylnt.us/$foo [sylnt.us] where $foo is a short jumble of letters that has no relation at all to what's in the story. The universe, however, appears to have a sense of humor and arranged for the link to wind up https://sylnt.us/cum [sylnt.us] for this nut story.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16 2019, @12:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16 2019, @12:32AM (#894460)

    The next Windows story will be at https://sylnt.us/bsod. [sylnt.us]
    I also see "Optional custom short URL" so maybe it wasn't random.