Stories about allergies

An allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system. Allergic reactions occur when a person's immune system reacts to normally harmless substances in the environment.
 
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"Everybody comes in and says 'thank you', " said co-owner Bernadette Gaspar about the gluten-free products she offers including those she displays at Frank's Bake Shop in Bangor on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown)

Eating gluten-free: Tasty dishes without wheat

By Emily Burnham on Aug. 10, 2010, at 12:18 p.m.
Megan Kemp gave birth to her son Hunter in January 2003. He was a healthy child, falling in the 75th percentile for weight. By age 3, Hunter weighed 38 pounds. By age 4, however, he weighed 37 …

Funds to improve drug safety awarded to 14 small hospitals

By Meg Haskell on Oct. 01, 2008, at 8:32 p.m.
Fourteen small community hospitals in Maine have made a commitment to improve medication safety for their patients, supported with funding from the Maine Health Access Foundation, or MeHAF. With combined awards of $670,000, the hospitals will im-plement a variety of measures aimed at preventing medication errors in and out of ...
 
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