Among the restaurant choices in Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, the restaurant chain Pret A Manger (French for ‘ready to eat’) seems to offer upscale fresh fast food to eat while waiting for one’s connecting flight.  Being a corporation based in the United Kingdom with most of its ~530 stores located there, some of us […]

Last July, I wrote about food oral immunotherapy (OIT) with the focus on currently available and potentially available options for peanut allergy. As of this month, only protocols adapted from academic medical centers have been an option and are used by just some of the allergists in clinical practice. Over the past year, approval of […]

     School food allergy action plans are now the norm because of the increasing prevalence of various food allergies over the past 25 years.  For parents and for medical professionals, they seem to be just more documents amongst an endless list of bureaucratic forms to complete.  However, just as we discussed last month with […]