(Teerasak1988/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For decades, scientists have theorized that kids actually need to get a bit dirty for ...

Talal A. Chatila is in the Division of Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA, and in the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Early versions of ...

Children who grow up in a farm environment are less prone to allergies, asthma and hay fever than their classmates. This ...

According to the National Center for Health and Statistics, under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 30% of both adults and children have allergy symptoms. Therefore, over ...

Certain immune cells backstab their cellular coworkers during allergic reactions. Mast cells, the security patrols of the immune system, can trigger allergic inflammation when they run into unfamiliar ...

A breakdown of why your immune system treats pollen like a parasite — and what happens next. Credit... Supported by By Simar Bajaj Illustrations by Jackson Gibbs Allergies are miserable. Your eyes ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have uncovered how serotonin-related metabolism helps regulate an understudied immune cell involved in allergic inflammation. The study, published in the journal ...

A "leaky gut" might increase the severity of food allergies, according to new research conducted in mice and published in The ...

After decades of limited options, allergy care is may no longer a one-size-fits-all treatment approach. As sneezes, coughs, and runny noses take over spring allergy season, researchers are finding a ...