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  • How food allergy law affects Canadian schools

    How food allergy law affects Canadian schools

    Blake Murdoch, Timothy Caulfield, Eric Adams

    Is a food allergy legally considered a disability, and are schoolwide food bans legally required to protect allergic students?

  • New blood test predicts 'late-phase' asthmatic response

    New blood test predicts 'late-phase' asthmatic response

    Amrit Singh, Scott Tebbutt

    Blood molecules called RNA transcripts may help scientists better understand the biology of allergic asthma.

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  • Can a mom’s distress during and after pregnancy increase her baby’s allergy risk?

    Can a mom’s distress during and after pregnancy increase her baby’s allergy risk?

    Liane Kang, Anita Kozyrskyj

    New research sheds light on the link between a mom’s psychological wellbeing and the immune health of her newborn.

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  • Saliva contains a novel molecule for measuring stress

    Saliva contains a novel molecule for measuring stress

    Eduardo Reyes-Serratos, Dean Befus

    A newly discovered protein in human saliva may help to predict and manage stress-related conditions.

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  • Tweaking immune cells to tackle food allergy

    Tweaking immune cells to tackle food allergy

    Wojciech Dawicki, John Gordon

    New research into a unique immunotherapy holds promise for treating food allergy and other immune system disorders by tweaking our own cells.

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  • When should parents feed potentially allergenic foods to their infants?

    When should parents feed potentially allergenic foods to their infants?

    Maxwell Tran, Malcolm Sears

    New Canadian research suggests that delaying the introduction of milk, egg and peanut may actually increase the risk of food allergy among infants.

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  • Can breastfeeding help protect babies from asthma?

    Can breastfeeding help protect babies from asthma?

    Lorena Vehling, Meghan Azad

    New research shows that breastfed babies have a reduced rate of wheezing, putting them at a lower risk for asthma later on.

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  • A child’s unique “web of exposures” can affect lung health

    A child’s unique “web of exposures” can affect lung health

    Michelle North, Anne Ellis

    Naturally, aspects of a person’s environment are connected, but until recently, scientists lacked the tools to visualize this complex web. The “exposome” concept maps environmental exposures and shows how they can affect a person’s health.

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