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• Christmas Raffle Winners
  Congratulations to the 2008 Christmas raffle winners

• Peanut advice to families likely to be revised
  The Food Standards Agency is recommending that Government advice on avoiding peanuts during pregnancy, breastfeeding and early life should be revised in light of new evidence.

• Design a Christmas Card for 2009
  If you are aged between three and 16 and enjoy painting, drawing or design then we would love you to take part in our ‘design a card’ competition.

• Allergy alerts reach a record level
  The number of allergy alerts sent out so far this year has passed the 2007 record level of 58.

• The Campaign calls for improved allergy services following tragic death
  The Anaphylaxis Campaign has called for urgent Government action to tackle the gross lack of allergy services in the UK, following the tragic death of Angus Myers from peanut allergy.

• Experts say MMR vaccine is safe for egg-allergic children
  The Paediatric Allergy Group of the BSACI (British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology) have failed to find any evidence that the MMR vaccine can pose a problem to egg-allergic children.

• HPV vaccine - advice for people with latex allergy
  The tip cap and the rubber plunger of Cervarix, the new HPV vaccine, may contain around 10 per cent dry natural latex rubber.