OK, you Scots!! You are very much in the news these days so step up and support this excellent project to help local communities bring wholesome bread within everyone's reach. Anyone who is remotely interested in good bread has heard of Andrew Whitley – craft baking pioneer, …
Alternative/Complementary Health
All go – at the Allergy Show!!
It was certainly all go this weekend at the Allergy + FreeFrom Show in Olympia's Grand Hall. We haven't yet had all the stats but the perception of all of the exhibitors that I spoke to was that it was definitely bigger and better than last year (already a record year). That …
‘Alternative’ allergy tests
Sense About Science is a scientific charity whose remit is to inform the public and enable them to 'make sense' of scientific and medical discussions. A worthy aim in which they are usually moderately successful. However, they have just tackled allergy and, although they have …
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
The worms march on
While medical allergists stress about reaction thresholds for allergens – indeed, whether it will ever really be possible to set the 'population levels' that allergic consumer and the food industry are asking for – the helminthic therapy community continues to grow and prosper. …