A new drug shows promising results for children who suffer from life-threatening peanut allergies. Matt Doyle has more.
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Women under 21 can no longer work as exotic dancers in Louisiana clubs as a result of a ruling from a federal appellate court. Jeff Palermo has more.
Les Miles is back as a college football coach. The “Mad Hatter” has a five-year deal with the Kansas Jayhawks that will pay the 65-year-old two-point-seven million dollars a year. Miles says he’s been eager to coach again, since LSU fired him in September of 2016
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Miles has a big task in front of him as Kansas has not had a winning season since 2008. He’ll replace David Beaty, who is 6-and-40 in four seasons. Miles says after watching Kansas play Oklahoma this past weekend, he’s optimistic he can turn the Jayhawks into a winner quickly…
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Miles won 114 games at LSU and boasted a 77-percent winning percentage. But his critics said his run-oriented offense couldn’t win the big game in today’s college football. Miles defended his offensive philosophy at LSU when asked during his introductory press conference
Children who suffer from severe peanut allergies may be in luck, as a new treatment can help mitigate the potentially deadly effects of accidental ingestion. LSU Health New Orleans Allergy expert Dr. Sanjay Kamboj says it’s not for light allergy sufferers, and you won’t be scarfing down PB&J’s, but, you could eat something cooked in peanut oil.
The treatment is still awaiting FDA approval.
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.
Two thirds of the participants who took the treatments saw positive results, but roughly 20 percent of participants had to drop out, and 14 percent of those taking the treatment had episodes that required epinephrine, vs only 6 percent of those who took the placebo.
Kamboj says it’s a process, but once the immunotherapy hits the half year mark, most allergy suffers should be able to avoid anaphylaxis from ingesting even tiny portions of peanut.
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One in 50 Americans is estimated to have a peanut allergy, something patients are usually stuck with for their entire lives.
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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 food stamp 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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Walters says the money is used to reimburse organizations already doing such training for people on the SNAP rolls.
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Walters says this is just another way that DCFS can help SNAP recipients attain more than just a minimum wage job to try and support a family.
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Louisiana ATC can now enforce a law barring anyone under the age of 21 from working as an erotic dancer in bars and nightclubs. That law, passed in 2016, had been held up after a federal court declared it too vague, but Solicitor General Liz Murrill, with the Louisiana A-G’s office, says that’s no longer the case.
The law was blocked after a challenge from three women who say the restriction cost them their lucrative dancing jobs, and interfered with their first amendment rights.
A federal judge and the 5th US Circuit Appellate Court barred enforcement until the specifics of how much nudity was allowed were ironed out. Murrill says after asking for another hearing with the fifth Circuit, the AG’s office made their case and….
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The law was part of a 2016 effort to curb sex trafficking, much of which advocates say was resulting in young women being coerced or forced into dancing at late night clubs. Murrill says the law is justified, and should help curb human trafficking.