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...Circle and Square as “Circle and SquarePants” and swap children’s stories with gleeful abandon be anything but adorable? Guitarist Ben Barnett even sports a tattoo of a ridiculously cute purple rhino from the children’s story “Peanut Butter Rhino...
...General and top White House aides was, nearly everyone agreed, clearly a windfall of immense proportions for the Democratic Party. And it was: in the 1974 midterm elections that gave the Democrats huge Congressional gains--43 House seats and three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later. In the long term, however, Watergate proved to be more of a boon for Republicans as it helped convince Americans of a bedrock conservative tenet: government is not to be trusted, the people in power in Washington...
...might be inclined to think that a 1-out-of-10,000 chance of death isn't so bad. But here's the tricky thing about peanut allergy: there's no way to predict who is prone to anaphylaxis and who isn't. Many people who develop anaphylaxis previously suffered only a mild reaction after consuming peanuts. Couple that with the fact that it is increasingly difficult to avoid peanuts--which, in addition to obvious sources like peanut butter and peanut oil, may be found in plain chocolate candies, sunflower seeds and other foods because of cross-contamination in processing...
Could Xolair take TNX-901's place? Not without a lot of new testing. "The problem is that they are not identical drugs," says Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai. "We don't know how the doses compare." Any doctor who prescribes Xolair off label to deal with your peanut allergy could well be gambling with your life...
...least, folks with peanut allergy have to do what they have always done: avoid peanuts in any form, keep an EpiPen on hand and try to lead as normal a life as possible...