A new study by a team from Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medical College and Uppsala University in Sweden has caused somewhat of a stir recently by suggesting that 'a subset of children with autism displays increased immune reactivity to gluten, the mechanism of which …
Allergies
The power of the blogosphere
We all know about the power of Twitter. Governments have been toppled, revolutions won, reputations ruined and fortunes made thanks to that little bird. Facebook doesn't do too badly either although I am not sure that it can, as yet claim any revolutions. But meanwhile, in its …
PPD in hair dye and elsewhere
If I check the stats for this blog for the most popular posts, way up in the top five is a very short post back in October 2011 on the dangers of PPD. So, it would seem that this is a matter of considerable concern to many people, on which they cannot find much information. On …
Numbers and perceptions – of life and allergy
I am an avid reader of The Week and particularly addicted to the snippets on page 6 which include 'Poll Watch' – this week devoted to our misconceptions. Mind you, their figures were taken from Ipsos Mori and Telepraph blogs so maybe the latter need to be taken with a little …
Ugly plants have higher pollen counts!
The uglier the plant or flower, the more allergy-inducing its pollens tends to be! What a lovely neat theory being propounded by Dr Robert Valet, assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University – and reported in Science Daily. Although it seems rather …