At its September meeting, Europe’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) discussed a direct healthcare professional communication that will warn clinicians about the risk for severe ...

Dear Reader: Fructose intolerance, commonly known as hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI), is a genetic disorder in which the body is unable to break down fructose and some other sugars. It is known ...

Food intolerances are often confused with food allergies, but they are actually very different. When you have a food allergy, your immune system mistakenly identifies a substance in a food as a threat ...

There are many different types of sugar in our diet, both natural and added. Fructose, a simple sugar, checks both of those boxes. It appears naturally in fruit, but it’s also a central component of ...

Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences and a professor of genetics and of medicine at the School of Medicine, all at WashU. Fructose consumption has ...