With all the food recalls announced every week or so and the challenges with ensuring that processed food is safe for your allergic family, it pays to make more of your own meals. After all, if you avoid pre-packaged food, you have a much better chance of an allergy-free meal. It's ...

New research published in the December online issue of Thorax shows that using breathing modification techniques can help patients with asthma. Researchers in the UK undertook a single-blind, randomized study that compared breathing training with simple asthma education. Approximately 130 people completed the study. Participants were selected based ...

It's all over the news these days: we're hysterical over food allergies. Okay - I'd have to admit that at least a couple of the stories that I've read indicate a level of hysteria that hasn't been seen since the cold war years and constant "Duck and Cover" drills for ...

CHICAGO – If you are buying processed or canned food items, you may have bought an item that could pose a danger to those with food allergies. This is the result of a survey done by the Chicago Tribune in their testing of the local grocery stores. The Tribune looked ...

Research focusing on PCBs and DDE has determined that chemical exposure early in life - from the womb to the first months after birth - can affect the risk for developing respiratory infections in the first year, as well as allergies and asthma symptoms as an adult. Researchers believe that ...