In a few hours, we enter a new year and a new decade (depending on whether one counts from zero to nine or from one to ten) with hope for the world and for ourselves. The new year is also the start of people being able to buy marijuana in Illinois for recreational use. According […]
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Microplastics: More Than Just One Word Needed For Understanding Allergies?
The October 1st issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine included a research article that caught my attention because of the unusual topic: microplastic substances in human stool. With the news in recent years about microscopic particles of plastic being found inside plastic water bottles, I was curious about whether the patients who were studied […]
The Promise Is Not Reality Quite Yet: How The Microbiome Has Caught Our Attention—Part 2
In March, I wrote that the view of the role of intestinal bacteria in allergic diseases has evolved from disdain and scorn in the 1990s to current ‘rational exuberance’ (to paraphrase a term from Alan Greenspan—former chairperson of the Federal Reserve). Health care professionals and scientists refer to the intestinal bacteria as the ‘microbiome’—the community […]