The wet weather we’ve been having lately has provided ideal conditions for the growth of mold spores and it’s happening everywhere - in the wet grass, on the leaves, and also in the wood. Now, it’s sending a lot of people to the doctors office.
“We’ve been pretty busy lately. In addition we’re still trying to […]
Ridding the house of dust mites and making dietary changes does nothing to stop children developing asthma or eczema as was commonly thought.
The surprising research results prove that popular steps taken by parents to prevent the onset of allergic conditions simply don’t work.
A team of Sydney researchers tracked 600 children from birth to age 5 […]
The five worst cities in the country for allergy sufferers this weekend are all in Oregon: Eugene, Salem, Portland, Medford and Pendleton, according to pollen counts reported by Surveillance Data Inc., at Pollen.com.
“We raise a lot of grass seed here,” says Portland allergist Dr. Mark O’Hollaren, “and it produces all that pollen.” Not to mention […]
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c38325) has announced the addition of Cold Flu and Allergy Remedies in the United States to their offering.
In 2004 the OTC cold, flu and allergy remedies market reached an estimated $2.8 billion in sales, increasing by 5.4% at constant prices from 1999-2004. This sharp increase is mainly due to the switch of […]
Acupuncture can relieve pain and abate the symptoms of illnesses, proponents say.
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/18/06
BY BOBBI SEIDEL
STAFF WRITER
For a long time, Stefanie Hay was in constant pain any time she tried to eat.
The Aberdeen teen, 18, had been to numerous medical doctors, her gall bladder had been removed, and she was […]
MOSCOW, June 14 (RIA Novosti) - Muscovites may soon be offered some respite from summer “blizzards” of poplar seeds as a campaign to plant non-wool poplar trees swings into action, an official from the Russian capital’s administration said Wednesday.
Poplar wool, known locally as “pukh” and similar to large dandelion clocks, has been enveloping Moscow […]
Recently the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), providers of early medical abortion, announced an increase in women opting for a medical, as opposed to surgical, procedure.
Almost one in three women who opt to terminate pregnancy within the first nine weeks now choose to undertake the early medical abortion (EMA) method.
This has met with […]
According to the National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit (NPARU), at Worcester University, the peak hayfever season will not hit Britain until mid-June.
“People begin to suffer when the grass-pollen count reaches 50 [30 pollen grains per cubic-metre of air is a low count], and we would not expect that threshold to be reached until the […]
BATTEN down the hatches everyone. At around 6pm this evening there is a very good chance that my head - and the heads of 12 million others - will very possibly explode.
If not totally explode, then at the very least it will feel like it for all those unfortunate souls like me, whose summertime […]
· Companies vie for £80m over-the-counter trade
· Climate shifts extend seasonal misery
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Monday May 29, 2006
The Guardian
Antihistamine pills can relieve the irritant effect of billions of tiny particles of airborne pollen. Photograph: David Levene
For the country’s 12 million hay fever sufferers, it could be the low point of the year. According […]