Just like the recent studies that show eating increasing amounts of peanut can actually build tolerance to peanut protein, researchers have found that eating egg can actually help those with egg allergies to get over them. The approach is called Sublingual Immunotherapy and it's becoming the next big thing in ...

Food allergies can create havoc. Suddenly, a food that might have been a staple is off limits. You are reading every label with a fine tooth comb and hoping that the food company has properly declared everything. Life becomes a constant process of educating yourself, your friends and family, and ...

If you have life-threatening food allergies, you know the problems with eating out. The thing is: most people who do not have allergies simply don't realize how dangerous it is to eat "just a little bit"! The real understanding of anaphylaxis is behind the growing number of allergen-free food companies. If ...

In my previous post, I covered how H1N1 is not looking as dangerous as we've been led to believe. While the media keeps reporting on every individual swine flu death (and they have managed to find some very tragic cases), the fact remains that we are not seeing the ...

It's still early in the flu season - so it's possible that things could still go badly. However, the data out of the southern hemisphere says that all the noise about "swine flu" is pretty much without merit. The data speak for themselves. While almost 36,000 deaths are ...