Word: immunoglobulins
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...Unitika Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, 30 minutes of kissing can dramatically reduce the allergic reaction to pollen. Twenty-four men and women with hay fever were told to kiss their partners for half an hour. Before and after the experiment, blood samples were taken to test the levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), which triggers symptoms of asthma and hay fever by releasing histamine into the blood. Kimata suggests that the significant drop in IgE levels could be attributed to the relaxation induced by kissing...
...treatment for Pemphigus uses intravenous immunoglobulin in place of steroids, the common treatment for Pemphigoid. Immunoglobulin is much gentler on patients, but it costs about $10,000 a month and has to be administered for up to a year...
Ahmed is a great proponent of immunoglobulin therapy; he has written many papers in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding its effectiveness and has conducted research on its uses at HSDM and at the Department of Dermatology at the Harvard Medical School...
...also petitioned Medicare to cover immunoglobulin treatment for Pemphigoid patients who failed to respond to steroid treatment or suffered serious side effects from that treatment...
...prosecution, however, cites the fact that Medicare reimbursed him at a rate of $90 per gram of immunoglobulin while the actual cost of treatment was between one half and two thirds of that amount, according to the Boston Globe...