A study out of Australia has set an ambitious goal: it's working towards a peanut allergy cure. Associate professor Mimi Tang of Murdoch Children's Research Institute out of Melborne, Australia is working with a number of children with severe peanut allergies. After one year of the study, she already has ...

Apparently, there is gene related to eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a syndrome which is also associated with some food allergies. EoE is a condition which varies with age. Young children with EoE can have difficulty eating, and are very prone to spitting up. In older children and adults, the symptoms change ...

New research shows that there is a definite difference in rates of food sensitivity: countries varied in the number of people who were sensitive to at least one food. In fact, while about 1 in 4 people in Portland had a food sensitivity, less than 1 in 10 had the ...

We are getting closer to Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) in North America. Merck Sharpe and Dohme has now published a positive set of results for its phase III clinical trials of a SLIT treatment for grass allergy. Grass allergy is a common seasonal allergy that results in a host of symptoms, ...

The tendency to allergies has a genetic component. As a result, pregnant women want to know what they can do to help their baby avoid allergies. Turns out that your diet may be more helpful than was previously thought. If you already have an allergic child, it may be helpful ...