Tagged food-allergy
AllerSmart IgE Allergy Testing Now Available for At-Home or At-Clinic and Includes the 9 'Big Foods' and 29 Key Environmentals
A new level of accuracy and specificity in allergy testing is now available. Easy to use and affordable, AllerSmart IgE allows people to take charge of their healthcare and make the first move. The 9 "Big Foods" tested, such as peanut, account for 90% of true food allergy - 29 key environmentals such as grass, dust mite, trees, weeds, cat, dog and molds complete the screen. This should not be confused with sensitivity or intolerance testing.
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Food Allergy Research & Education: Introduction of Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education and Research (FASTER) Act Highlights Need for Food Allergy Research and Treatments
Package of federal policies will improve the health, safety and inclusion of the 32 million Americans living with food allergies
Read MoreEmory University With Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and UW Health in Wisconsin Join FARE Clinical Network
Food Allergy Research & Education's Collaborative to Advance Food Allergy Research and Care Continues to Grow; Food Allergy Medical Claims Up 75 percent in Wisconsin and 146 percent in Georgia since 2009
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SnackSafely.com Appeals to Kellogg's: Don't Add Peanut Flour to Existing Products
Kellogg's should abandon their plan to add peanut flour to products that currently bear no warnings of peanut content - a plan that may lead to unnecessary and possibly fatal reactions in unsuspecting consumers.
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Seattle Food Allergy Consortium Member, Northwest Asthma & Allergy Center (NAAC) Receives Food Allergy Grant From Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)
A FARE center of excellence, Seattle-based NAAC offers treatments and affiliated business, ASTHMA Inc Clinical Research Center, runs clinical desensitization trials for food allergy, including the Viaskin Peanut patch and Stanford University's oral immunotherapy.
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The Seattle Food Allergy Consortium (SeaFAC) Issues New Allergist Guidelines For Parents on Early Introduction of Peanuts to Help Prevent Peanut Allergy
SeaFAC's recommendations are based on the LEAP (Learn Early About Peanut) study, which found that certain high-risk infants regularly fed peanuts in the first year of life experienced an 86 percent reduction in peanut allergy by age 5.
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