All skin tests doctors commonly use to check for food allergies can provide false negative results, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded — meaning people with potentially life-threatening ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . All participants showed no false-negative results when tested 2 weeks after anaphylactic reaction to food ...

Skin tests for allergies include skin prick testing, intradermal testing, and skin patch testing. Skin tests are generally safe but can cause irritation or, rarely, a severe allergic reaction called ...

Real-time skin monitoring could make oral food challenges (OFCs) safer for young children with peanut allergies by reducing severe reactions, a new study found. Researchers at the University of ...

Results from some medical tests are easy to interpret. If your throat is swabbed for a streptococcal infection and it comes back positive, you know you have strep throat. At-home pregnancy tests are ...

If you have allergies, you’re probably familiar with the ways your immune system broadcasts its general lack of chill. Maybe your nose releases a river of snot, your eyes feel maddeningly scratchy, or ...