Way back in 2010 when I started this blog, as some of you may remember, its 'header' was a picture of of our garden here at Lawn Road, complete with Boris, our ginger cat, peering in at the bottom. For several months I had considerable fun changing the header each month to …
Allergies
2013 roundup!
Since I have a memory which can rarely reach back beyond last weekend, attempting a 'round up' of what happened last year is my worst nightmare... So I am delighted that Alex G. at Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink, has just done it all for me!! A little biased towards …
Horror stories….
I have just been working my way through John Scott's weekly compendiums of research reports for November and December (sadly, we are nowhere near as prompt at getting them onto the sites as he is at sending them to us) and I came across two really horrendous stories that he had …
The importance of ‘history’ in diagnosis, especially in allergy
In a recent post on his blog Dr Briffa bemoaned the over-reliance of the modern medical profession on 'tests' to the exclusion of the exercise of their clinical skills. His mini rant had been set off by an article in the BMJ by Dr Des Spence accusing modern doctors of being so …
‘Food to go’ surges ahead in FFFood Awards entries
In a positive hurricane of last minute entry forms, the 2014 closed at midnight last Sunday, logging up a satisfactory 19% increase in companies entering the awards. Very encouragingly for the freefrom sector these included 69 'new' companies some of whom are established freefrom …