Researchers have developed a new drug that can help those who have a life threatening reaction to peanuts. LSU Health New Orleans Allergy expert, Doctor Sanjay Kamboj, says it’s an oral medication that builds up peanut tolerance in allergy sufferers over six months. That’s by slowly introducing a non-fatty peanut protein in small batches. Kamboj says they ran the experiment on 372 children.
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Two thirds of the participants who took the treatments saw positive results.

A young leader is emerging in Avoyelles Parish. 19-year-old Stanley Celestine Junior has been elected to the Avoyelles school board and will begin serving his term in January.Celestine says he wants to take a closer look at the school system’s discipline policies
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The Department of Children and Family Services is teaming up with the United Way in an effort to expand workforce training for SNAP recipients in seven southeast Louisiana parishes. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says the partnership expands who can receive federal dollars to be used to reimburse programs for the cost of training with SNAP recipients.
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The Saints look unstoppable as New Orleans won its ninth straight yesterday beating the defending Super Bowl champs, the Philadelphia Eagles, 48-7. Quick turn around for New Orleans as the Saints host Atlanta this Thursday.