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Article: Leading Food Allergy Research and Advocacy Groups Merge to Find Cure for Life-Threatening Childhood Disease.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- February 18, 2009
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The Food Allergy Initiative and The Food Allergy Project announced a merger of their organizations, a powerful combination that will increase public awareness of the severity of life-threatening food allergies, empower advocates and family support groups, and encourage the nation's leaders to increase funding for this potentially deadly disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has said that "food allergy has emerged as an important public health problem," and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently noted that rates are rising significantly among children. Food allergies afflict more than 12 million Americans, including approximately three million children ...
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