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Are there downsides to using omalizumab for treating food allergy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Are food allergies becoming more common? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Consequences of food allergies can be life-threatening, which is why FDA approval of omalizumab to treat them is welcome. Robert Wood, one author of a study used to inform the agency’s decision and an allergy expert at Johns Hopkins, says …
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Can early feeding of allergenic foods overcome them? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Feeding very young children peanut products can assure that they don’t develop an allergy to peanut. Can this strategy be expanded to allergies to foods like milk, meat, or egg? Johns Hopkins allergy expert Robert Wood comments. Wood: There’s an enormous …
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Can food allergies be outgrown? Elizabeth Tracey reports Most people know about peanut allergy, since it impacts a lot of people, especially children. Can these allergies be outgrown? Robert Wood, an allergy expert at Johns Hopkins, says for most, that’s …
Severe food allergies do not usually occur alone, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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If you have a severe allergy to one food, you probably have the same issues with other foods, as well as allergies to things like pollen that you inhale. That’s according to Robert Wood, principal investigator on a study that …
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