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MHWFAC tapped by National Institutes of Health for elite grant
The MHWFAC has been awarded a seven-year CoFAR Cooperative Agreement Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to become one of its 10 centers of food allergy research in the United States.
The intersection of genetics and environment: MHWFAC launches new long-term sibling study
Why do some kids develop food allergy, while others, even those in the same family, do not? Why has food allergy in children doubled in just the past 20 years?
Unraveling those mysteries is the aim of a new long-range study being launched by the Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center.
Affected by food allergy? Researches want to interview you.
As part of an ongoing international study about access to mental health care for those affected by food allergy, researchers are seeking to interview adults with food allergy, and parents of children with food allergy.
Researchers to decode links between food allergy and eczema
A significant percentage of people with atopic dermatitis – commonly known as eczema – also suffer from food allergy.
Some studies, for example, have found that infants with atopic dermatitis (AD) are six times more likely to be allergic to eggs, and as much as 11 times as likely to have peanut allergy.
But while the connection
New webinar: Becoming a food allergy advocate!
Some patients with food allergy, and their caregivers, are frustrated by the lack of awareness, of safeguarding rules and of resources for those affected by this disease.
Many people find it to be useful and therapeutic to channel these observations and frustrations into lobbying for practical measures that make life better for the food