A couple of months ago we ran an updated version of an archive article on obtaining prescription drugs whose excipients (non-active ingredients such as fillers, capsules and colourings) were free of lactose, starch, corn, azo dyes, sugars etc – a major problem for those with …
Eczema
Judging the FreeFrom Skincare Awards…
I am not sure what I expected when I sat down for our initial judging of the products entered for this year's first ever FreeFrom Skincare Awards... It was obviously going to be a very different experience from judging the FreeFrom Food Awards which we had done only three weeks …
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 …
Taking a new look at allergy research
As those of you who get the FoodsMatter newsletter, or who regularly frequent the information sites, Foodsmatter.com and Coeliacsmatter.com, will know, every couple of weeks we upload between 10 and 20 reports of new research studies on allergy/intolerance and on the many other …