Local folks who suffer from allergies soon will have a newoption nearby to receive treatment. Allergy Partners is expected to open its 67th branch office inmid-February as an expansion of its primary Albuquerque office,said Amanda Reed, marketing and corporate communications managerfor the company that’s based in Asheville, N.C. “There’s a need for allergists there because [...]

Rashid Aljari shops for goat milk to feed his lactose intolerant son at the Organic Foods & Café in Dubai Mall. Sarah Dea / the National DUBAI // Linda Foster’s two-year-old daughter has coeliac disease, an inflammatory disease of the gut, which requires young Aili to eat only gluten-free food. but finding that food can [...]

Mercedes showcases a prototype of an augmented reality, gesture-controlled networking system at CES.STORY HIGHLIGHTS Many automotive designers seem to take inspiration from smartphonesCars are becoming platforms to participate in the digital, networked world Technology is still crude, and several years away from finding its way into vehiclesMercedes demos an “augmented reality” windshield at CES Las [...]

ISSAQUAH— Figuring out if your child has food allergies can be a scary thing.  while we’ve all heard of the common ones like gluten, peanuts and milk, there are other rare allergies that are becoming more common.“Exotic fruits like kiwi, mango and papaya are emerging as an allergen — sesame as well,” said David Naimi [...]

Organic food is sought immediately after by many, and due to the importance of living a healthful lifestyle organic food has also been on the increase. This importance and popularity has also propagate into the pet food market.Natural a href=”http://www.partyanimalpetfood.com”Organic Dog Food/a doesn’t have a connection to chemicals of almost any sort from the early [...]

Download this story as a PDFSHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith.STEVE EMBER: and I’m Steve Ember. Today, we tell about soft-bodied robots — robots that can move more easily than those made of metal. We also tell about efforts to control the disease malaria. and we [...]

Dr. Zucker lived in Georgetown and practiced for 35 years in Prince George’s County, where he maintained three allergy offices before his retirement in 2008. His daily pollen counts, a traffic update of sorts for allergy sufferers, were used by radio and television stations and by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone for its recorded weather updates. [...]

We’ve all heard about “food triggers” for migraine. some of us know we can’t eat cheese, or chocolate, or cured salami without paying a price. some of us avoid red wine and wheat beer. some of us, however, have kept migraine diaries for years without ever being able to identify a single food trigger.Does our [...]

You make your child a loving, filling plate of eggs for breakfast. Within minutes, their face swells to twice normal size, their skin turns as red as Elmo and they have trouble breathing. If you’re Robyn O’Brien, mom of four and author of “The Unhealthy Truth,” you take a stand.O’Brien went on an exhausting journey, [...]

Digestion and the immune system: how delaying food introduction can prevent allergies + eczema in your child Allergies are the 3rd most common chronic disease among children, and eczema is present in over 10% of kids. This epidemic of atopy, a person’s predisposition to developing allergic symptoms has caused health care practitioners to look beneath [...]