Consultant offers hope to children with severe peanut allergies

A leading allergy consultant offered hope to parents of children with a severe peanut allergy by confirming that his landmark study into peanut allergy will be rolled out into other allergy clinics nationwide ‘in around three years time’. Dr Andrew Clark, paediatric allergy consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge told JFHC editor Penny Hosie that the study intake will be groups of children aged seven to 16 and that King’s College Hospital in London will be one of the allergy clinics where the trial extension is expected. Dr Clark spoke at last night’s 20 year celebration of the Anaphylaxis Campaign at