Current News (May 26)

Cooking around food allergies
Moncton ThisWeek – Moncton,NB,Canada
Called “Food Allergy Cookbook” and written by Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, a professionally-trained chef, it contains 224 pages of useful tips and recipes for …

http://monctonthisweek.canadaeast.com/education/article/303767

Food allergies are becoming more common
New York Daily News – New York,NY,USA
It’s vital to take food allergy seriously, because it can cause respiratory and cardiovascular arrest and, occasionally, death. …

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2008/05/21/2008-05-21_food_allergies _are_becoming_more_common.html

Ballpark Goes Peanut-Free to Stem Allergic Reactions
FOXNews – USA
Organizer Christy Campie’s 7-year-old son, Eric, has a life-threatening peanut allergy. She says he’s passionate about baseball and attends the LumberKings’ …

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356609,00.html

Allergy meds permitted at schools
Deseret News – Salt Lake City,UT,USA
The Utah Food Allergy Network, which pushed hard for children to be able to maintain their own medication, documented one case where a child was having a …

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700227028,00.html

Peanut-Free Baseball at the Metrodome
Murino,Montenegro
The Anaphylaxis & Food Allergy Association of Minnesota (AFAA) and the Minnesota Twins are partnering to promote a peanut-free skybox section for those with …

http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33223&Itemid=61

Dynavax to drop allergy program that failed test
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
The Food and Drug Administration stopped Heplisav testing last month because of “a serious adverse event” in a person who received the vaccine outside of …

http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/05/12/daily87.html

Eight Surprising Allergy-Fighting Tactics
Newsweek – USA
… active and angry,” says Dr. Neil Kao, of the Allergic Disease and Asthma Center in Greenville, SC, and food-allergy reactions can be more severe. …

http://www.newsweek.com/id/137190

Current News (May 10)

Data Show Common Allergy Tests Are Not Interchangeable
Biloxi Sun Herald – MS, USA
These values are often used to guide decisions about the severity of a patient’s food allergy and subsequent management strategies. These published data are …

http://www.sunherald.com/447/story/546999.html

Allergy Sufferers Must Take Special Precautions When Traveling
ABC News – USA
While his work as a travel writer makes him a trailblazer for tourists looking for the best places to go, the fact that he has done so despite his food …

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AllergiesNews/story?id=4798402&page=1

Health tips: Food allergies
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Sarasota,FL,USA
It is fairly easy to control the food environment at home, but once your child steps on the school bus all bets are off. The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis …

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080506/FEATURES/805060516/-1/newssitemap

On the road with allergies and asthma: coping tips
Reuters – USA
If you’re flying to your summer vacation destination, be sure to pack all allergy and asthma medications in your carry-on bag. And food allergic people …

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTON57947420080505

Allergy expert says expect cure for peanut allergy in five years
News-Medical.net – Sydney,Australia
Professor Burks who is a food allergy expert, believes in the next five years that there will be some type of immunotherapy available for peanut allergenic …

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38019

Is our zeal for cleanliness making us ill?
Times Online – UK
But earlier reports from researchers at Portsmouth University claimed that the incidence of food hypersensitivity – which embraces allergy and intolerance …

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3863223.ece