Food allergies

Food allergies complicate hungry Americans’ search for meals

By KATHLEEN RONAYNEJune 10, 2021 GMT

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — When Emily Brown, a Kansas City mother, couldn’t find foods that her 2-year-old with multiple food allergies could eat at a local food pantry, she mustered up the courage to ask about gluten-free foods or dairy alternatives.

FDA approves first treatment for kids with peanut allergy

By LAURAN NEERGAARDJanuary 31, 2020 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first treatment for peanut allergies is about to hit the market, a big step toward better care for all kinds of food allergies -- but still a long way from a cure...

Emily Oster crunches parenting data so you don’t have to

By LEANNE ITALIEApril 18, 2019 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Breastfeeding, sleep training, food allergies: Parents navigate an onslaught of decisions, particularly fraught from birth to preschool when their own sleep deprivation and inexperience may come into play...

No peanuts or Cracker Jack at the old ballgame in Hartford

By PAT EATON-ROBBFebruary 17, 2019 GMT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kerry Adamowicz hoped that a meeting with Hartford Yard Goats officials might lead to a few peanut-free days or maybe a peanut-free section at the Double-A baseball team's stadium, so her son and other children with food allergies could enjoy a game...

Study takes closer look at food allergies

NAJJA PARKER The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionJanuary 18, 2019 GMT

If you think you have a food allergy, you might be incorrect, according to a new report.

Researchers from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University recently conducted a study, published in JAMA Network Open, to determine the prevalence and severity of food allergies among adults in the United States.