New advice: Peanuts in baby’s diet can prevent scary allergy
New parents, get ready to feed your babies peanut-containing foods — starting young lowers their chances of becoming allergic.
FDA issues warning as peanuts found in cumin spice
Hundreds of products are being pulled from store shelves after traces of peanut were found in ground cumin spice.
Bad bite: A tick can make you allergic to red meat
A bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear off red meat.
New treatment could reduce kids’ peanut allergies
An experimental therapy that fed children with peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour has helped more than 80 percent of them safely eat a handful of the previously worrisome nuts.
States enact laws to stock epinephrine at schools
NASHVILLE — When a third-grade student who had been stung by a wasp developed welts on his neck and had trouble breathing, school nurse Amanda
Achoo! Pollen at its worst this year in many areas
Pollen: It’s on your car, in the air and especially in your sinuses. From Florida to Texas to Colorado, 2010 is shaping up to be a monster of an allergy season.