New hope for allergy sufferers

According to Web MD, doctors report early success with a new approach that would shorten the course of treatment for allergy sufferers.

Doctors hope that a shorter course of allergy shots will build up an allergy suffers' immune system and help with the allergies. This is known as immunotherapy. It’s the idea that someone with allergies to food or pollen can build up their immune system by being given small amounts of allergen.

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Although it is still early, the company developing the shots hopes to apply for FDA approval of the product in the next year and have already applied for approval in the European Union.

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