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Food Allergy Awareness Week 2008

It's Food Allergy Awareness Week (May 11 through May 17, 2008), part of Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month.   Gina Clowes, founder of AllergyMoms.com, and a new expert on our site, has written a blog post about the next steps in a parent's food allergy journey with their children. Find valuable tips about eating out, managing your kitchen... Read moreChevron

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

May is Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month and we've created tools and provided information for you to get the most out of it.   It's not your imagination -- your hay fever is probably worse than it has been before and more and more people around you are suffering the same thing. Allergic diseases -- including seaonal allergies, food... Read moreChevron

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America team with Molly Shannon On Allergies

  Actress and entertainer Molly Shannon (famous for playing Mary Kathering Gallagher on Saturday Night Live) is teaming with Healthcentral.com's non-profit partner, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), to launch the Allergies Are No Laughing Matter campaign and Web site. Ms. Shannon and AAFA worked with Pfizer (maker of... Read moreChevron

Prescription Drug Ads: Do They Do More Harm Than Good?

Read our experts' analysis in a special Issue Section "Prescription-drug ads prompt nearly one-third of Americans to ask their doctors about an advertised medicine, and 82% of those who ask say their physicians recommended a prescription."   This comes from Julie Appleby, a reporter with USA TODAY in a news article about... Read moreChevron

FDA Approves New Use for Xyzal: Allergic Rhinitis and Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria

According to a press release from the drug company: UCB and sanofi-aventis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a New Drug Application (NDA) for Xyzal (levocetirizine dihydrochloride) 0.5 mg/mL oral solution, a prescription antihistamine used to relieve symptoms associated with indoor and outdoor allergies, as... Read moreChevron

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An allergy is the immune system's over-reaction to a normally harmless substance called an allergen.

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