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Food Allergy Awareness Week is a great time to take stock. We have come so far in the last decade on food allergy awareness. It’s now common for schools to make food allergy accommodations to protect at-risk kids, while colleges in the United States are also moving in that direction (following a key ADA decision), [...]

Job: Actress on TV’s Modern Family Has child allergic to: peanuts, nuts, insect stings Allergic Living’s Gwen Smith: Julie, how did you first become aware of your child’s food allergies? Julie Bowen: I was at work on Boston Legal and my husband was at home. He sent me a text saying, ‘I think we have [...]

A large study suggests there are strategies that might reduce the odds of having a peanut- or nut-allergic reaction aboard an airplane.

Three-quarters of patients with asthma and sensitivity to Aspirin are getting asthma flare-ups from alcohol.

The staying power of OIT (oral immunotherapy) for milk allergy has been called into question with the results of a 5-year followup of test subjects.

Feb. 11, 2013 – We’re deep into editing and layouts here at Allergic Living on the Spring 2013 edition of the magazine, so I thought I’d let our followers know what we’re working on. For our cover article, writer Carolyn Black has an incredibly insightful article on the impact on some marriages of the day-to-day [...]

A recent agreement reached between the U.S. Department of Justice and a private university in Massachusetts is one of the boldest positions taken on the rights of people (in this case students) to be able to eat safely. Here was the issue: Back in 2009 a few students at Lesley University in Cambridge complained that [...]

Magazine bolsters editorial strength and tackles the tough social challenges facing those with food allergies and celiac disease.

Forecast for 2040: pollen and lots of it, say Rutgers scientists.

We know her best as Claire Dunphy on the hit TV series Modern Family. But in real life, Julie Bowen is one of us: an allergy mom with a son at risk of anaphylaxis. She found out the hard way – through an anaphylactic reaction – that her son, now 5 years old, has severe [...]