Anabelle Terry, a slender, self-possessed 13-year-old, has heard the peanut butter story her entire life. At two and a half she ate nuts for the first time. Her mother, Victoria, had made a little ...

FARE and Dr. Sung Poblete will serve as subject matter experts at the inaugural convening of the Forum on Food Allergy, a new ...

Those episodes compelled Randhawa, a pulmonary ICU transplant immunologist, into a 20-year journey studying and quieting food allergies. The founder of the Food Allergy Institute in Long Beach has ...

Dozens of ice cream containers have been recalled by a New York company after they were found to contain a dangerous allergen ...

Oral immunotherapy (pOIT) significantly increases peanut challenge tolerance in children compared to avoidance, with 74% success in the pOIT group versus 11% in the avoidance group. The study ...

A man with a life-threatening peanut allergy now eats four for breakfast every day after taking part in a groundbreaking study. Chris Brookes-Smith, 28, was diagnosed as a baby and had always ...

Mary Grace Baker, MD, allergist and pediatrician at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, describes the challenge of preventing food allergies in the first year of life as a ...

There are two types of people: people who obsess over peanut butter, and people who have a fatal peanut allergy. And even then, sometimes it’s a Venn diagram. Whether it’s for PB&J, celery slices, ...

Peanuts and soy are two of the nine most common allergens in the United States, according to Food Allergy Research & Education. It's believed that about 6.2 million Americans have a peanut allergy, ...

It sounds nuts, but one snack may help you live longer. Telomeres — the caps at the ends of your chromosomes — get shorter as you age, and that shortening can contribute to age-related diseases like ...

But some people get gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms like gas, bloating, cramping, or constipation after they eat these legumes. (Despite their name, peanuts aren't actually nuts.) Supriya Rao, MD, a ...