A new study, commissioned and funded by the Food Standards Agency and Medical Research Agency, has found that despite hospital admissions increasing for food-induced anaphylaxis, deaths as a result were very rare with the rate decreasing during the 20-year period
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Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care as Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). Sir Munir is a clinical pharmacologist and geneticist who currently holds the David Weatherall
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It is with great sadness that we have to report the death on January 20th of Pat Schooling, the Director and moving spirit behind Action Against Allergy. Pat was 93. Action Against Allergy was founded by Amelia Nathan Hill in
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Julianne will work with us to educate, inform and campaign as a high profile entrepreneur who lives with anaphylaxis. Julianne Ponan (31) didn’t start out wanting to be an entrepreneur. She began her career in finance and took her first
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As an ambassador Julianne will work with us to educate, inform and campaign as a high profile entrepreneur who has lived with anaphylaxis since childhood. Julianne Ponan was a toddler when she had her first anaphylactic attack. At nursery after
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Please take part in the international survey on Psychological Service Needs for Food Allergy headed by Dr Rebecca Knibb at Aston University in collaboration Dr Chrissie Jones, Dr Helen Brough, Dr Linda Herbert, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Centres in the UK,
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We really welcome the Editorial in the BMJ (18th January 2021)- “Vaccinating against Covid 19 in People who report Allergies.” Click here to read the editorial The Campaign has had an unprecedented number of calls to our helpline from allergic
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We are saddened to learn of the tragic death of Ellen Raffell, aged 16, who sadly died on 31st October 2019. We would like to offer our deepest sympathies to her family at this difficult time. Following the inquest on
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Shrimp allergy is a common and serious food allergy that is underdiagnosed and often lifelong.
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