Honey's benefits overtstated in article From Connecticut Post Experts: Honey has health benefits," suggested that local raw honey is of benefit to allergy sufferers. Although not life-threatening (with the exception of food allergy), allergic symptoms can significantly decrease quality of life. It is proposed that ingesting this pollen through honey can induce tolerance (thereby decreasing the symptoms of allergy). This study demonstrated that local honey provided no relief to allergy sufferers. BENEFITS: Although honey may have no use for the...

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RCP: Government still failing to address allergy: Experts ask ... From Politics.co.uk UK allergy experts are asking the Secretary of State for Health to take decisive action to improve care for people with allergy. Dr Pam Ewan, (Consultant Allergist, Addenbrooke's Hospital) said: It is a national disgrace that despite 3 reports from expert bodies, professional and patient organisations and the House of Lords, there is still no comprehensive concerted action on improving services for patients with allergy.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and World Allergy Organization ... From PRInside.com (Pressemitteilung) World Allergy Organization (WAO). The World Allergy Organization Journal (WAO Journal) will provide accessible, peer-reviewed original research, in-depth review, and editorial comment for the 25,000 members of WAO member societies, and for every allergist and clinical immunologist across the globe. "Given both the rapid developments in allergic disease and the interdisciplinary nature of allergy research, we suggested to the WAO that an online journal could provide the best possible resource...

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Anti-parasite Drug May Fight HIV From RedOrbit Researchers seek to deny HIV its safe havens in the human body A drug already used to treat parasitic infections, and once looked at for cancer, also attacks the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a new and powerful way, according to research published today online in the open access journal Retrovirology. Past research has established that HIV has "learned" to hide out in certain human cells where it is safe from the body's counterattack, cells that come to serve as viral reservoirs. A...

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Got Milk Allergy? What the Labels (and Docs!) Don’t Tell Us From allergykids.wordpress.com According to CNN and a recent study published in the Journal of Allergy and Immunology, milk allergy is the most common food allergy, having established itself in the number one position in the last ten years. Children with a milk allergy are allergic to the proteins found in milk. In 1993, this genetically manipulated milk protein, rBGH, was controversially approved and allowed to enter the American food supply - in the form of milk, cheese, yogurt and beef.

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