Rates of infertility across the Western world are rising, and rising significantly. In Canada, they rose from 8.5% in 1992 to 15% in 2009-10; one in six couples now have difficulty in conceiving while sperm counts have halved – yes, halved - in the last 50 years. In Britain, …
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News from elsewhere: NCGS, ME, goat milk microbiota and whey!
Alex has been in full flow this week and, since he says it so well, I would like to send you to his blog! For those of you who are interested in 'the gluten question' his post, Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity: we're not there yet illustrates all too clearly that confusion is …
PPD, henna and the dangers of cross reactivity
The inquest into the death of Julie McCabe four years ago has finally come to a close – with the coroner suggesting that the black henna tattoo that Mrs McCabe had had done in Dubai four years earlier could have been a factor in raising her sensitivity to the PPD which killed …
The Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia
I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …
47% of MEPS suffer from allergies!
Not only were the members if the European Parliament staggered to find how many of them suffered from allergies, but so were the team from the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) who organised the tests! 'We knew that allergies are a major health issue …