Seems that research is confirming what many have suspected for some time: chocolate does help you deal with stress (as long as you aren't allergic to it). A clinical trial published in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Proteome Research show that chocolate can be taken medicinally. Eating about 45 ...

Allergic parents often worry about how to introduce foods to their babies, given that the tendency to allergies runs in families. This has led to the advice to focus on the least allergenic grain - rice - as baby's first cereal. New research out of the UK, however, shows that ...

Recent studies have shown that many of us who think we have peanut allergies actually do not: we may be sensitive or intolerant of them, but not technically allergic. At issue is the precision of the standard allergy tests. It turns out that the tests tend to produce too many ...

A warning for people who are allergic to latex: it turns out that tagless labels can often involve latex based "paints" that will stay on the surface of the clothing item, similar to silk screen paints (which also can use latex). Latex allergies are common to many professions that are regularly ...

It turns out that diagnosis of food allergies based on blood or skin tests alone may be wrong, according to experts. The gold standard of blood tests - the IgE antibody test - measures for the presence of IgE to a particular food. But it's possible that you could have ...