An experimental therapy tested on children with peanut allergies has proven successful in helping most of the kids safely eat peanuts. » 1/30/14 11:20am 1/30/14 11:20am

Added to the ever-changing, constantly growing, completely contradictory list of shit that pregnant women should and should not do to have the best pregnancy ever is the consumption of nuts, previously thought to increase the risk of nut allergies in children. A new study suggests that the exact opposite is true. » 12/24/13 2:00pm 12/24/13 2:00pm

This list of America's sneeziest cities (the worst places for fall allergies) will be incredibly validating for those who are sniffly in Wichita, Kansas; Jackson, Mississippi; Knoxville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky or Memphis, Tennessee. Otherwise, you'll probably just be pissed. » 9/18/13 6:30pm 9/18/13 6:30pm

Worried about dying alone? Turn that frown upside down because you might be able to get a cat to eat your still-fresh corpse, after all! » 7/30/13 9:30am 7/30/13 9:30am

If cats could form organized groups for the greater good of felines everywhere, there's no doubt their first order of business would be to form some kind of union for bodega/library/coffee shop cats' rights. Alas, they cannot. » 3/30/13 1:00pm 3/30/13 1:00pm

And now, a bit of sad news to help you mourn your fading Sunday — some poor, anonymous soul at the BBC is allergic to bananas, a fact that has prompted fellow staffers implement a banana-ban in "specific areas of the newsroom." » 1/06/13 6:00pm 1/06/13 6:00pm

Today in doooooooooyyyyyyyyy, two new studies have found that kids with health issues are common targets of bullying. I mean, that's nothing new. Kids are dicks, and bullying has never been more in the forefront of the public consciousness than it is right now. But the numbers in these studies (though, admittedly,… » 12/26/12 3:45pm 12/26/12 3:45pm

As if it weren't bad enough that their bodies were waging a war of attrition with certain insidious nuts and dairy byproducts, a new survey from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that nearly a third of the eight percent of U.S. children diagnosed with food allergies are bullied in school. If you've… » 12/24/12 12:20pm 12/24/12 12:20pm

If the big, bad EU lawmakers in Brussels — glutted with government-issued waffles and chocolate — have their way, perfumed Europeans might have to wait until they swaddle themselves in a blanket of tree moss during a jaunt in the Dolomites before they realize that they have skin-scourging allergy to tree moss. That's… » 12/16/12 3:30pm 12/16/12 3:30pm

This is Fuck You Week, Jezebel's first annual week of desperate emotional cleansing and unhinged psychic purging. » 12/11/12 4:30pm 12/11/12 4:30pm

Oh, food. So delicious and necessary-for-not-dying, and yet soooooooooo constantly full of poisonous poop. Food recalls are probably my favorite type of horrifying national emergency, because they're so mysterious and close to home. Like, I eat food (much to the displeasure of the "Manosphere")!!! I totally eat it all… » 12/03/12 4:00pm 12/03/12 4:00pm

When American Girl Dolls hit the market in 1986, the focus was on American History and how little girls lived during various eras of our nation's development. But over the years, the company has expanded the types of dolls it manufactures. In the 1990s, a customizable American Girl was created, and it was a hit:… » 11/27/12 2:30pm 11/27/12 2:30pm

Slathering one's child with all manner of anti-bacterial products has become a common practice among many parents—and who can blame them since the world is basically a disgusting place covered with poop dust and all kinds of dangerous germs. But recently this tendency to sanitize our offspring has come under suspicion… » 6/20/12 11:15am 6/20/12 11:15am

There are already so many downsides to growing up in a big city. You can't roam around by yourself playing in the woods and catching frogs, your whole family is jammed in together in a small space, and you grow up to be too hip for your own good. Now we can add to that list that you're more likely to have food… » 6/11/12 9:30am 6/11/12 9:30am

Lots of people have severe allergies, but they don't exactly have a badass reputation. Solution: get a list of what you're allergic to tattooed right on your skin. » 2/27/12 10:00am 2/27/12 10:00am

If you grew up without a cat but have become convinced by numerous YouTube video that they're adorable and delightful creatures, you still may want to think twice before adopting one. As there is absolutely no facet of life that can't be turned into a health scare, experts are now warning that even adults with no… » 12/28/11 11:40pm 12/28/11 11:40pm

A British woman is in a coma after collapsing while dying her hair with L'Oreal Preference hair dye. Doctors think she's experiencing a severe allergic reaction to a chemical in the dye. » 11/22/11 7:00pm 11/22/11 7:00pm