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Dr. Kari Nadeau’s new book is a must read for anyone with known or suspected food allergies
The End of Food Allergy is a must read for anyone with known or suspected food allergies. Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, Latitude co-founder and head of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, and food allergy parent Sloan Barnett, offer readers an approachable guide to the science behind food allergies and the life changing treatment options that are now available.
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Top 100 Women in Food Allergies
Latitude CEO and Founder, Kimberley Yates and two members of our Medical Advisory Board — Dr. Amal Assa’ad and Dr. Tania Elliott — are included in this list cultivated by Spokin.
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Allergists Debate Anticipated FDA Approval of a Peanut Allergy Drug
There are many sides to the OIT conversation between researchers, clinicians, advocates, policymakers and – most importantly patients. In anticipation of FDA approval for the first food allergy treatment the conversation is getting louder.
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Peanut Allergy Treatment Palforzia Is One Step Closer to Market
The FDA has shown support for a therapy that could save lives and ease anxiety for millions of families.
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Panel Backs FDA Approval for Aimmune’s Peanut OIT Drug
We are very proud of Latitude co-founder Kim Yates Grosso’s 16 year old daughter Tessa for testifying at the FDA meeting, advocating the need for oral immunotherapy.
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For Children With Peanut Allergies, F.D.A. Experts Recommend a New Treatment
We are very proud of Latitude co-founder Kim Yates Grosso’s 16 year old daughter Tessa for testifying today at the FDA meeting, advocating the need for oral immunotherapy.
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Latitude Food Allergy Care and UCSF Health Form Strategic Alliance
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Local Mom Uses Experience to Help Open Specialty Food Allergy Clinic, Los Altos Town Crier
by Melissa Hartman
“Taback and her clinic co-founders hope to give parents what they wish they had when they were learning about their own children’s serious food allergies: reassurance that they can handle all of the situations thrown their way.”
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Food Allergy News from Latitude – February 2019
Includes Dr. Rani Maskatia’s perspective on food allergy science in practice, updates in research, a welcome for Nurse Practitioner Allison Anderson and Nurse Liz Caulfield, and a patient voice from a mother and physician.
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Working to Take the Fear Out of Food, Gentry Magazine
Written by Robin Hindery, Photos by Jack Hutcheson
“First, she battled her daughter’s horrific food allergies. Now, Kim Yates is fighting on behalf of other affected families, creating a new model of the allergy clinic, one that serves a rare delicacy: immediate action.”
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FATT Chat with Dr. Rani Maskatia about OIT — Chew the FATT
by Stacey J.C. Sturner
Board certified allergist, Dr. Rani Maskatia had the privilege of joining the active Facebook group, Food Allergy Treatment Talk, for a semi-live Q&A on oral immunotherapy (OIT).
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Food Allergy News from Latitude – December 2018
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Girl with severe allergies: A crumb could kill me, The Today Show
For 10-year-old Tessa Grosso, walking around a school cafeteria was like walking through a minefield filled with spilled milk, crumbs of wheat and other foods that were life-threatening to her. Tessa and her family, including mom Kimberley Yates Grosso, talk about living with severe food allergies and how she’s doing after an experimental new treatment from Stanford University.
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The Allergy Buster, The New York Times Magazine
by Melanie Thernstrom
For nine years, the greatest challenge Kimberley Yates Grosso faced each day was keeping her daughter Tessa safe. Tessa was so severely allergic to milk, wheat, eggs, nuts, shellfish and assorted other foods that as a toddler she went into anaphylactic shock when milk fell on her skin.
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