The week began with the extremely welcome news that the LEAP study, which had been on-going on at Guys's and St Thomas' Evelina Hospital for the last 5 years, has come up with exactly the results that we had all hoped that it would: that eating peanuts from an early age is likely …
Conventional Medicine
With apologies to The Week readers….
Apologies to those of you who have already read these reports in last weeks' Week but their Health & Science pages not only informed but induced such a pleasant chortle that I wanted 'to share'..... In brief: Eggs make us nicer! Dutch researchers have concluded that the …
Obscure intolerances poorly served – and don’t we know it!
From a salicylate-intolerant site visitor who has been batted backwards and forwards between allergy and dermatology departments, neither of whom will give her the time of day because they have tested her for the full gamut of IgE mediated 'proper' allergies – and she does not …
Christmas culture – from the panto to My Promised Land
OK – so when did you last go to a panto?..... So many decades ago in my case that it feels like millennia! Which is why, when one of my favourite neighbourhood theatres, the Park in Finsbury Park, flagged up Jack in the Beanstalk with rave reviews from everyone from Sir Ian …
The further adventures of Frodo
Cat lovers among the readers of this blog might wish to check in on the latest trauma in Frodo's life.... …