The 8% of U.S. children with food allergy amounts to about two in every American classroom, she noted. This refers ...

A new study has shed light on why patients with certain rare immune disorders develop severe, food-triggered allergic reactions while others with similar diagnoses do not. The findings, published in ...

Peanut allergies affect millions of Americans, causing reactions that range from itchy hives to life-threatening anaphylaxis—and there is still no true cure. But at the University of Notre Dame, one ...

Introducing peanuts and other allergens early in a baby's diet is helping lower food allergy rates. New research shows a 27% drop in peanut allergies in young kids since guidelines changed in 2015.

A large U.S. analysis of 125,000 kids found a 36% drop in food allergies after guidance shifted to introducing allergens in infancy, including a 43% decline in peanut allergy. Eggs have now overtaken ...

New research shows an encouraging trend - fewer children are developing allergic reactions to peanuts. In 2017, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommended introducing ...

Feeding babies foods containing peanut as early as possible can help prevent peanut allergy. But many parents remain confused about this tactic and require more support to get it right, researchers ...

Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the west. And, for many years, their prevalence has been rising. But a recent study out of the ...

A team of researchers from the New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found six genes drive peanut allergy reactions, according to a study published in Nature Communications Dec.

Researchers in England have found that roughly 80 percent of children with peanut allergies who participated in an experimental treatment were able to build resistance to the allergy and can now ...