In case you have been wondering why this poor blog has been somewhat ignored recently – it is because we have been going 'responsive'! By December 2014, according to SmartInsights.com, nearly 60% of internet users were accessing the web both on their laptop/PC and their mobile …
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Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
Horizon on allergies
I have to admit to turning on last night's Horizon programme on allergies with a bit of a sinking heart – expecting the usual perfectly worthy but not really helpful selection of talking heads. But indeed not! Led by the wonderfully avuncular but authoritative Prof. Graham Rook, …
In memoriam – Dr Harry Morrow Brown
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, Dr Harry Morrow Brown finally lost his battle to keep his heart ticking last week. He was 96. I first met Harry and Freda nearly 30 years ago at the Oxford Food Symposium. How come? Well, Freda was interested in food so they thought they would …
Ugly plants have higher pollen counts!
The uglier the plant or flower, the more allergy-inducing its pollens tends to be! What a lovely neat theory being propounded by Dr Robert Valet, assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University – and reported in Science Daily. Although it seems rather …