New evidence suggests that introducing common sources of food allergies in the first year of life is associated with reductions in new cases in children. But prevention is only part of the story.

Jeanne Marrazzo, M.D., the former director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was fired from her position three weeks after ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Jeanne M. Marrazzo, MD, MPH, was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Marrazzo ...

Two former agency leaders said the administration’s “hostility” toward vaccines had spread to the agency’s top ranks. By Benjamin Mueller Two prominent scientists said in whistle-blower complaints ...

For years, parents were told not to expose their babies to peanuts, to prevent a potentially dangerous allergy. But 10 years ago, a landmark study found the opposite to be true, stating that if babies ...

In this study, physician-diagnosed peanut allergies in children ages 0-3 declined by 27.2% after guidelines recommended early peanut product introduction. The 2017 national guidelines recommended ...

After conventional wisdom seemed to make peanut allergies worse, a 15-year scientific journey led to “landmark” recommendations that now appear to be reducing their incidence.