For the average citizen evaluating the claims made for cure all - or even improve all - health products and procedures has always been difficult. Not only is it an area in which we have minimal expertise but most of us have a vested interest in finding a miracle intervention that …
New England Journal of medicine
Allergy Week – but not as we know it!
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 …
Ignoring carbohydrates in diabetic diets
Diabetes is not our area of expertise (we scarcely have enough time to keep abreast of allergy, let alone taking on diabetes) but I do feel very sorry for diabetics. Their lives used to be trying, but simple – they had a strict diet to which they had to adhere and specific (not …