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.

After parents were advised to introduce children at risk of nut allergies to peanuts, the number of allergic kids dropped by more than 40% Getty The number of children with food allergies — ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the Ng family, travel once seemed out of reach. Eating out while traveling carried great risk for their daughter, Stella, who faced a severe allergy to peanuts. “When she was 18 ...

According to researchers, this simple idea has protected more than 60,000 people from getting peanut allergies.

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. David Hill, an allergist and physician, about a study he co-authored that found early exposure to peanuts resulted in fewer peanut allergies in children. Peanut ...

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.

An estimated 40,000 children avoided peanut allergy diagnoses after the guidelines for when to first expose kids to the food allergen changed, according to new research. The dramatic drop in childhood ...

To answer these questions, registered dietitian nutritionist Carrie Dennett spoke with Georgia-based dietitian Sherry Coleman ...