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 […]
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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 […]
Body Weight and Allergic Conditions: A Difficult Topic
September brings the start of another academic year. After a relaxing summer in the sun, adults often feel a vicarious urge in the autumn to learn new things or to change habits. Whether it is now or with the New Year’s resolutions of December-January, the topic that is among the top tier of things […]