[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 61 (Friday, March 27, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E333]
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      RECOGNIZING ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE TREATMENT

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                          HON. J. FRENCH HILL

                              of arkansas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 27, 2020

  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize 
researchers at the Arkansas Children's Research Institute for their 
hard work in developing a treatment for peanut allergy in children.
  Recently, the FDA announced the approval of Palforzia, an oral immune 
therapy that gradually desensitizes children to peanut proteins.
  This therapy has the potential to greatly reduce allergy-related 
deaths in children, given that 2.5 percent of children suffer from 
peanut allergies.
  This treatment would not have been possible without the research of 
Dr. Stacie Jones and her team on oral immune therapy.
  They developed the methods used in the trials for this peanut allergy 
treatment.
  I am proud to have such a skilled team of experts in my district at 
Children's Hospital, where I served on the board of directors for 14 
years.

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