According to the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin, Grazax - a new sublingual immunotherapy for grass allergies - is simply not cost effective. Research shows that the benefits to patients are quite modest, while the cost is quite high. Grazax is on the market England and costs £67.50 (about $100) for ...

Harvard researchers have shown that decreasing rates of vitamin D could have been a part of the increasing rates of asthma and allergies. Rates of allergy and asthma has directly increased in parallel with the decrease in vitamin D levels in the general population; the connection is so significant that ...

Did you know that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) can be changed so that the resulting plants can produce their own pesticide? It's true: Bt corn is just one of the genetically-modified (GM) strains of corn that is on the market today. What this means is that this GM corn produces Bt-toxin, ...

Most people don't often think about magnesium. It's not one of those minerals that we monitor in standard blood tests for deficiency. However, it could be important for your general health and to help to decrease your risk of allergic disease, including asthma and other allergic conditions. New research shows ...

New research shows that patients who react with anaphylactic shock to a vaccine are often reacting to the gelatin in the shot. Reports presented to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology indicated that gelatin allergy could be much more common than people know. Gelatin is used in vaccines as ...