Columbia, S.C. | A yellow haze of pollen descended on the Southeast in the past week, coating cars and porch furniture and making people miserable in one of the worst allergy seasons in years.
Doctors are telling people with stuffed-up noses and itchy, watery eyes to spend more time indoors if they can.
“Everybody who walks through […]
Within seconds, the bumps began swelling on the inside of Damian Jones’ forearms.
“Whoa, my goodness, this guy’s got some real allergies here,” said Dr. Mark Schecker, an allergist who was testing Jones on Monday in his Myrtle Beach office.
To the uninitiated, the testing looked more like torture - dozens of needles poked into his arms […]
Trend alert! The month of March has now seen two films about New York City lesbians who fall for women who are into straight guys. But that’s only half the trend. The other half is that both movies are mediocre at best.
“Puccini for Beginners,” though, is superior to “Gray Matters,” which came out March 9. […]
It’s the closest thing there is to a gay Woody Allen movie, and “Puccini for Beginners” has some of the ups-and-downs of recent Woody fare.
The director encroaching on Allen’s Manhattan turf is Maria Maggenti, whose 1995 comedy “The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love” was one of the early success stories of the […]
It’s that time of the year again. Spring has sprung, and pollen is in the air. In Davis, spring weather means allergies commonly caused by tree pollen, grass pollen and, according to Dr. Thomas Ferguson, walnut tree pollen - all of which manifest themselves between the months of March and June.
“With this recent late rain, […]
Have a child with serious food allergies? Are peanuts, milk or eggs verboten in your household? Then you’ll get helpful advice on how to live with these allergies at a meeting of the San Diego Food Allergy Support Group. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. March 28 in Oceanside at Tri-City Medical Center, […]
With the new Democratic Congress promising to lower health-care costs, makers of inexpensive generic drugs sense a unique opportunity to level the playing field with their brand-name rivals.
Generic manufacturers such as Barr Pharmaceuticals and Mylan Laboratories know, however, that sympathy on Capitol Hill will only go so far. So lobbyists are using a Bush administration […]
Sometimes a movie deserves a second chance, and that’s certainly the case with the lesbian film “Puccini for Beginners,� which was one of the featured selections at last year’s Out on Film festival in Atlanta.
The film is a little predictable in its plot and story, but it is propelled by a wonderful lead character suffering […]