Posted by john on August 26th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
Any parent of a child with allergies knows how stressful it is worrying about their diet every day. Now a host of new snack products are available to help alleviate some of those concerns.
Four year old Lindsay Hall has severe food allergies. The discovery was horrifying for her mom.
“When Lindsay was 11 months, I made […]
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Posted by john on August 19th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) announced today that Governor Eliot Spitzer has signed into law the Allergy & Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2007 (AAMA; A.4051), landmark legislation that will help protect New York schoolchildren who suffer from life-threatening food allergies. The full text can be viewed at http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A04051. The […]
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Posted by john on August 15th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Hundreds of community and business leaders, members of civic organizations, and citizens will come together Sunday, October 7th at De Anza Cove in Mission Bay Park in San Diego for a massive fundraising walk to increase awareness about food allergy and to raise money for research and education.
The event, […]
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Posted by john on August 10th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
Allergy to insects is quite common, particularly in the monsoon season when different species of insects breed and multiply. Insects have very short life and when they die, their wings and bodies become part of the ground dust. After drying and disintegration, when such dust is inhaled, it can cause allergic asthma. Asthma due to […]
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Posted by john on August 6th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
The Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center is now offering allergy-friendly guest accommodations and 99.9% allergenic-free meeting facilities.
“At the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center, we’ve always made it a priority to offer personalized service to our guests,” says Helen Simmons, General Manager at Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center. “We’ve taken that philosophy to unprecedented heights with our new allergy-free […]
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Posted by john on July 29th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
NEWARK, N.J. -
Schering-Plough Corp. said Monday its second-quarter profit more than doubled as revenue climbed 13 percent on the strength of cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia.
Net income climbed to $517 million, or 34 cents per share, after preferred dividends for the quarter ended June 30 from $237 million, or 16 cents per share, a year […]
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Posted by john on July 25th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says.
Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.
However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless […]
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Posted by john on July 22nd, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
Dunhills (Pontefract) Plc has withdrawn all batches of Haribo’s Pasta Basta, Apple flavour and Strawberry flavour (15g) confectionery, because of the presence of wheat gluten not shown on the label, making these products unsafe for people who are allergic or intolerant to wheat or wheat products. The Agency has issued an Allergy Alert.
The product contains […]
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Posted by john on July 17th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
Plenty of other things could have killed me over the years: stress, high blood pressure, liver disease due to heavy drinking, injuries sustained in misjudged pub fights due to heavy drinking, my wife garnishing my food with shards of glass due to my heavy drinking. But not this – surely I couldn’t be dying from […]
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Posted by john on July 15th, 2007 — in Flonase Top News
A Brisbane company is leading the way in Australia, with a major expansion into allergy free food products.
Statistics have shown the number of children with food allergies has doubled in the last five years.
Former CSIRO scientist Bob Hamilton was motivated to launch ‘Earlee Products’, which supplies manufacturers like Ingams and Woolworths with allergen free seasoned […]
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