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Healthy Living: Stopping Deadly Allergies

The CDC says more than 50 million people in the U.S. suffer from allergies.

Fifteen million are allergic to foods, which can be life-threatening.

In Healthy Living we show you how researchers now have a target for developing treatments and better diagnoses. 

A team of researchers at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason got a $5 million NIH grant to accelerate their work to find allergy treatments.

Erik Wambre hopes to expand his study to find unique cancer cells in the blood.