A new oral desensitization treatment for children with peanut allergies is on the cusp of FDA approval, however questions remain over both the long-term efficacy of the treatment and the ultimate cost ...

Peanut allergies affect roughly 6.1 million Americans, and over 32 million have more general allergies. 1 Many of these patients are told by their practitioners to avoid their allergens, which often ...

Millions of Americans fight food allergies each and every day. For some, it is so bad they cannot eat out or fly on airlines. For the Hesemann family, in Springfield, that used to be the case. Two out ...

There are many forms of food allergy, the most common of which are IgE mediated. Common IgE-mediated food allergies include those to peanuts, tree nuts, cow's milk, egg, soy, wheat, shellfish and fish ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mean successfully completed dose increased from 48 mg to 2,723 mg of peanut protein by 48 months. 70% ...

Jessica Racco gives Oliver his two Peanut M&Ms, part of his daily “maintenance dose,” after undergoing an allergy desensitization process. Credit: Carl Jordan Castro / C-HIT.org For Oliver Racco, it’s ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Richard Lassiter, a 44-year-old with a severe peanut allergy, can now eat peanuts daily after participating in a "life-changing" desensitization trial. The trial gradually exposed 18 ...

In separate cat and birch allergen-challenge trials, single doses of allergen-specific antibody blockers significantly reduced allergy symptoms compared to placebo TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Sept. 08, 2025 ...

The FDA has approved Aimmune Therapeutics’ peanut-flour product palforzia to mitigate the effects of peanut allergies. This first-of-its-kind approval validates a regulatory pathway for food allergy ...

Allergy treatments haven’t advanced much in decades, even as hundreds of millions around the world suffer from wheezing, itches, and rashes — and in severe cases, risk death — from exposure to ...

Peanut allergies are serious business. "Peanut allergies can be very violent. They can be very extreme," said Dr. Katrina Miller. Numerous reports of people dying of anaphylactic shock after ...