A professor in UNC’s School of Medicine completed a promising clinical trial testing a new treatment for peanut allergies.
Dr. Wesley Burks, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, co-authored the study, which used daily doses of a liquid containing peanut powder to decrease patients’ sensitization to peanuts.
Seventy percent of participants were able to consume more peanut powder than they could before the trial.
