Your indoor environment maybe making you sick. The US Environmental Protection Agency has found that indoor air pollution exposure can cause eye, nose and throat irritation, fatigue, dizziness, headache, asthma and cancer. It can contain dust, mold, pollen, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other air pollutants. VOCs are organic chemicals that evaporate and enter the […]
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“My Mother Told Me I’m Allergic To Penicillin:” The Why and When For Penicillin Allergy Testing
We associate November with Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday (and, unfortunately, elections). But who knew that November 12-18 this year was ‘Antibiotic Awareness Week’? Just about no one. The United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) developed this educational effort, as the winter cold and flu season starts, to prevent overuse of antibiotics. In […]
Being Ready For The Unexpected: Lessons From Recent Food Allergy Deaths In The UK
Among the restaurant choices in Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, the restaurant chain Pret A Manger (French for ‘ready to eat’) seems to offer upscale fresh fast food to eat while waiting for one’s connecting flight. Being a corporation based in the United Kingdom with most of its ~530 stores located there, some of us […]