First Global Estimates of Celiac Disease and Its Mortality Burden: 42,000 Children May Die Every Year (27 Jul 2011)
Coeliac disease may not be one of the world's biggest killers, but it is a readily preventable cause of death.

The effect of wheat allergy on the course of atopic eczema in patients over 14 years of age (2011, reported online: 31/Jan 2012)
Wheat allergy may play an important role in the worsening of allergic eczema in a minority of adolescents and adults.

Can Probiotics Prevent the Development of Celiac Disease? (13 Feb 2012)
In a study looking at the influence of probiotics on the development of coeliac disease in mice, disease progression was seen to reverse.

Researchers identify unexpected player in intestinal immunity (14 Mar 2012)
Intestinal cells have been identified that chaperone food antigens, or proteins, in the intestine so that the immune system doesn’t mount an attack. Their discovery provides a potential target for therapies against inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease and food allergies.

Is Celiac Disease Reversible? (2 Mar 2012)
The latest evolution in autoimmune research indicates why the gluten-free diet may fail to fully treat Celiac Disease, and what needs to be resolved to reverse it.

The Gluten-Free Lie: Why Most Celiacs Are Slowly Dying (Mar 2012)
The latest research shows the gluten-free diet isn’t working as the conventional Celiac Disease prescription and most Celiacs are slowly dying.

Wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis in wheat-sensitive patients after use of wheat-containing facial soap (Dec 2011, online at 30 Mar 2012)
The development of wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis can be associated with the use of facial soap containing hydrolysed wheat protein.

Feeding in the first year of life - emerging benefits of introducing complementary solids from 4 months (4 Apr 2012)
Introducing solids from 4 months of age may decrease the risk of food allergy and coeliac disease.

How Probiotic Bacteria Protect Against Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (26 Apr 2012)
Lactocepin - an enzyme produced by the lactic acid bacterium, Lactobacillus paracasei - can interrupt inflammatory processes by selectively degrading specific inflammatory mediators in diseased tissue, and thus may be able to prevent intestinal disorders.

Maternal antibodies to gluten linked to schizophrenia risk in children (10 May 2012)
Babies born to women with sensitivity to gluten appear to be at increased risk for certain psychiatric disorders later in life, according to new research.

Persistent bone pain may be a sign of coeliac disease (27 Mar 2012, online at 18 May 2012)
Osteomalacia associated and cutaneous psoriasis were found to be caused by coeliac disease in this case report.

Warfarin hypersensitivity due to gluten-sensitive enteropathy (Spring 2012, online at 15 Jun 2012)
A patient developed vitamin K deficiency as a result of malabsorption due to flattened intestinal villi caused by gluten-sensitive enteropathy, exacerbated by long-term warfarin therapy.

Effects of High Blood Pressure Drug May Mimic Coeliac Disease (22 Jun 2012)
Some patients taking olmesartan developed chronic diarrhoea and lost an average of 40 pounds.

Pasta made from green banana flour a tasty alternative for gluten-free diets (23 Jun 2012)
Researchers have developed a gluten-free pasta product from green banana flour, which tasters found more acceptable than regular whole wheat pasta. The product has less fat and is cheaper to produce than standard pastas.

Allergy to deamidated gluten in patients tolerant to wheat (28 Jun 2012)
It is possible to be tolerant to wheat yet intolerant to gluten proteins that have been modified by deamidation to enhance their solubility and technological applications. Allergy to deamidated gluten is therefore a separate entity from wheat allergy.
More on this research here.

Popular blood pressure drug linked to gluten sensitivity, coeliac disease (1 Jul 2012)
The popular blood pressure drug Benicar (olmesartan) often causes patients to develop symptoms of coeliac disease that later subside when the medication is stopped.

Coeliac Disease Under-diagnosis in US - Probably A Result Of Low Biopsy Rates (2 Jul 2012)
A major reason why coeliac disease is still under-diagnosed in the U.S. may be because doctors are not performing biopsies while doing endoscopies.

Non-Coeliac Wheat Sensitivity: Exploring a New Clinical Entity (24 Jul 2012)
This research confirms the existence of non-coeliac wheat sensitivity as a distinct clinical condition. It also suggests the existence of two distinct populations of subjects with wheat sensitivity: one with characteristics more similar to CD and the other with characteristics pointing to food allergy.

Poor Medical Follow-Up In Coeliac Disease Often Leaves Patients To Cope On Their Own (27 Jul 2012)
Follow-up exams for patients with coeliac disease are highly variable and often inadequate, according to a new study.

Most With Coeliac Disease Unaware of It; Others Go Gluten-Free Without Diagnosis (31 Jul 2012)
According to a recent study, roughly 1.8 million Americans have coeliac disease, but around 1.4 million of them are unaware that they have it, and a further 1.6 million people in the US are on a gluten-free diet even though they haven't been diagnosed with coeliac disease.

One of every 100 US whites has coeliac disease (14 Aug 2012)
One percent of non-Hispanic whites in the US - close to two million Americans - has coeliac disease, but most are not aware they suffer the gluten-intolerance problem.

New major wheat food allergen discovered (17 Aug 2012)
Even after extensive simulated digestion, the new allergen, Tri a 36, released distinct IgE-reactive fragments and was highly resistant against boiling.

Defining wheat sensitivity (21 Aug 2012)
Wheat sensitivity may show up as nausea or as bowel problems, and some people get symptoms more like coeliac disease, while others' symptoms are more like a food allergy.

Gluten sensitivity: problems of an emerging condition separate from celiac disease (Feb 2012, PubMed 1 Sept 2012)
A call for recognition of, and research into, this emerging medical problem.

Cutaneous hypersensitivity to gluten (Sept 2012)
The use by coeliac patients of gluten-free personal care products, and protective gloves before hand contact with food containing wheat, resulted in an improvement of their skin eruptions.

Gluten toxicity may express itself in demyelinating diseases (18 Sept 2012)
A gluten-free diet can provide considerable benefits to patients with demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, such as MS, as well as gluten sensitivity.

Coeliac disease now occurring in 1 out of every 100 people in Europe and the US (11 Oct 2012)
Coeliac disease is a multifactorial disorder with an estimated prevalence in Europe and USA of 1:100 and a female:male ratio of approximately 2:1.

Coeliac disease prevalence is at least 1:286 among supposedly healthy blood bank volunteers (Sept 2012, PubMed Oct 2012)
This finding came to light in a study looking at the prevalence of adults with undiagnosed coeliac disease among blood donors of São Paulo, Brazil.

Gluten likely contributes to a significant percentage of cases of dysmotility-like dyspepsia (23 Oct 2012)
Gluten-sensitive enteropathy can be a frequent and unsuspected cause of dysmotility-like dyspepsia

Oats are demonstrated safe for coeliacs (accessed 25 Oct 2012)
This study re-affirms that oats are neither toxic nor immunogenic to coeliac patients.

Coeliac disease is not all bad: it may also have some beneficial health effects (16 Oct 2012, accessed 25 Oct 2012)
Although coeliac disease is associated with some adverse conditions; it may also have some beneficial health effects, such as a marked reduction in the risk of breast and lung cancer.

Prevalence of migraine in patients with coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (5 Nov 2012, Accessed 15 Nov 2012)
Migraine was more prevalent in coeliac disease and IBD subjects than in controls. Future studies should include screening migraine patients for celiac disease and assessing the effects of gluten-free diet on migraines in coeliac disease.

Tasty and gluten-free (5 Dec 2012)
Scientists are working on creating new recipes for tasty, gluten-free pasta and pastries.

A gluten for punishment: the whole grain assault on health (5 Dec 2012)
A large proportion of the US (and possibly the world) population may be sensitive to certain molecules present in most grains. Similarly, those that belittle the gluten-free movement as a fad might, in fact, be unknowing victims of grain sensitivity.

Gluten sensitivity in the absence of coeliac disease exists. It really does! (30 Nov 2012, accessed 6 Dec 2012)
A recent article in the British Medical Journal presents an unusually balanced and honest account of gluten sensitivity, recognising the limitations of medical testing and admitting that there are things we simply don’t know or understand.

Toward a pill to enable coeliac patients to eat foods containing gluten (19 Dec 2012)
Scientists are reporting an advance toward development of a pill that could become coeliac disease's counterpart to the lactase pills that people with lactose intolerance can take to allow them to eat dairy products without risking digestive upsets.

Coeliac 'epidemics' link to infections early in life (19 Dec 2012)
New research indicates that repeated infections early in life increase the risk of developing coeliac disease. And this begs the question whether the problem is really the infections themselves or the antibiotics frequently prescribed to treat them, antibiotics now being well known to seriously disrupt the gut microbiome.

Oral and dental issues may signal a need for early investigation of celiac disease (2012, accessed 28 Dec 2012)
The appearance of certain dental problems in children may signal the need for early investigation of possible celiac disease.