Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly popular in maternity care. However, healthcare professionals need evidence-based information about its use, according to The University of Queensland’s Dr Jon Adams, lead author of a review published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing…
Millions of Americans sneeze and wheeze March through June when they use misinformation to manage their spring allergies…
The body is a dancer’s instrument, but is it attuned to the mind? A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that professional ballet and modern dancers are not as emotionally in sync with their bodies as are people who regularly practice meditation…
On 20 January, Stallergenes, the leading company worldwide in sublingual immunotherapy treatments for respiratory allergies, inaugurated its new pollen-production site in Amilly (Loiret department). The new factory is the result of close cooperation with the Cemagref scientists in Nogent-sur-Vernisson, who are specialised in forest genetic resources…
Heparin plays a key role in allergic and inflammatory reactions driven by mast cells, scientists from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows in an international collaboration involving colleagues from Germany and Switzerland. The study is published in the recent issue of Immunity, and sheds some new light on the biological function of heparin…
A study of more than 3,000 children shows that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased likelihood that children will develop allergies, according to a paper published in the February 17 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University headed the study…
A study of more than 3,000 children shows that low vitamin D levels are associated with increased likelihood that children will develop allergies, according to a paper published in the February 17 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University headed the study…
Winter officially ends on Saturday, March 19, but many states will experience a month or more of continued snow and ice. Broken bones due to snowboarding and sledding top the list of common causes for visits to the Emergency Department (ED) during the winter months…
This year will see an unprecedented surge in the number of Americans becoming eligible for Medicare, as the leading edge of the Baby Boom generation begins to turn 65. This will spark a fundamental shift in the US population: Today, about 1 in 10 Americans are 65 and older; by the year 2030, according to the Alliance for Aging Research, that number will climb to 1 in 5…
A 48-year-old man was sentenced yesterday to six months’ imprisonment suspended for two years and 200 hours of unpaid work for selling and supplying herbal medicines to the public without a marketing authorisation. Ramchandre Damle of Southall, Middlesex, pleaded guilty to three counts of selling and supplying the medicinal products, ‘DBCare’, ‘BControl’ and ‘SX Power’…