Simple explanations for complex problems are always very tempting but they rarely prove to be the answer. This is especially true in our modern medical world where diverse, debilitating and ever more common conditions such as allergy, coeliac disease, Parkinsons, MS, ME and …
Allergy
Elucidating allergy/intolerance confusion….
Last week we had a meeting with the lovely Ceres PR who will be working with us on promoting the FreeFrom Food Awards this year – and one of the things they asked us to outline for them in our briefing was areas of confusion in 'freefrom' and allergy/intolerance. Not a …
Personal Health Records – perfect for allergics
You doing anything on January 19th? In London? If not you might want to go along to the Wellcome Collection in Euston Road between 11 and 3pm to find out about the latest NHS initiative that not only allows you to access all of your own personal health records on line, but to be …
Clashing rights and conflicting disabilities
As allergic reactions to everything from peanuts to poodles become ever more prevalent we are all likely to find ourselves sitting on the horns of some uncomfortable dilemmas. Two recent stories, culled from John Scott's' latest news' files, illustrate what I mean... Story 1. …
Living with eczema
Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …