What We Are Reading Today: Allergic

What We Are Reading Today: Allergic
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Updated 20 June 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: Allergic

What We Are Reading Today: Allergic

Author: Theresa MacPhail

Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Either you have an allergy or you know someone who does. Billions of people worldwide — an estimated 30 percent to 40 percent of the global population — have some form of allergy. 

In pursuit of answers, medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail studied the dangerous experiments of early immunologists as well as the mind-bending recent development of biologics and immunotherapies that are giving the most severely impacted patients hope.