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Washington Post May , ALLERGIES LEAD TO WAVE OF LAWSUITS AGAINST LATEX GLOVE MAKERS Buoyed by a million jury award to a Milwaukee hospital technician who developed a severe allergy to natural rubber latex gloves, hundreds of U. S. health care workers are suing glove manufacturers, alleging they knew prolonged exposure could cause reactions from mild skin irritations to deadly ailments. In the last year, a steady stream of new claims against latex glove manufacturers has been filed in federal court in Philadelphia, where about cases from across the country have been.. The Dallas Morning News , Something to sneeze about Phoenix loses status as haven for allergy prone PHOENIX Before urban sprawl began overtaking the desert, the Phoenixmetropolitan area was a haven for allergy sufferers. D ors in the s and ' s would send patients and their sinuses to the area for the dry, virtually pollen free air But many of those people also brought their nondesert plants, which subsequently matured and now fill the air with pollen this time of year. Now Arizona ranks among the top percent of states in pollen count during the six week allergy.. USA TODAY May , Cost of allergies is nothing to sniff at The allergy suffering of the in people sneezing this spring is costing more than just boxes of tissues. While up to million work days are lost a year to allergies, a Gallup survey shows they also result in An average of two weeks of "impaired" work per sufferer because of symptoms and drowsiness from medication. billion spent by consumers and employers on allergy treatments. And this year is shaping up as worse than usual. In.. The Daily Oklahoman , Allergy Clinic to Change Pollen, Mold Reports Starting in late , the Oklahoma Allergy Clinic will implement a new method of providing pollen and mold conditions to The Oklahoman and other print, television and radio media in central Oklahoma. Currently, reports of pollen and mold conditions use numerical values, or counts, to represent pollen and mold in an area during a hour period, said Dr. Warren V. Filley, an allergist with the clinic, which is located at NE. Sometimes these counts are then given a rating of.. THE ORLANDO SENTINEL , COOKING FOR KIDS WITH FOOD ALLERGIES AFTER AN ORLANDO MOTHER WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING FOOD ALLERGIES, D ORS FOUND HER D HTER SUFFERED SIMILAR PROBLEMS. As a toddler, Alicia Bruce loved apples. No one, not even her mother, year old Phyllis Bruce, noticed that apples made the little girl's cheeks flush as red as ripe fruit. Minutes after eating apples, applesauce or drinking apple juice Alicia would complain that her stomach hurt. But Alicia's delicate stomach didn't spark suspicions about food allergies until last when her mother tested positive for moderate to severe allergies to a variety of.. THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE , New Food Allergy Testing Questioned San Francisco surgeon calls "neutralizing' doses worthless A controversial technique of identifying food allergies by injecting patients with extracts of different foods appears to be worthless, a San Francisco surgeon asserted in a scientific study published today. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is raising tensions between traditional allergists and members of an emerging medical field called clinical ecology, who use the test and blame a wide range of illnesses on food and modern chemicals. The test, known as.. FOR RELIEF FROM ALLERGIES, IT'S DUST TO DUST FOR MITES Summer and fall are the worst seasons for allergy sufferers, as outdoor irritants like pollen fill the air and warm days encourage mold and mildew growth. Here's some advice from allergy specialists, plus some new household products to help you analyze and manage household irritants. On the ket A new type of air cleaner uses a series of ever finer air filters, cleaning more particles than the standard electrostatic air filters. These new cleaners are called HEPA.. Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics Preferred Drug Lists Interfere with Successful Asthma Control PRNewswire The Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) announced findings today at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology (ACAAI) showing that preferred drug lists and prior authorization strategies employed by state Medicaid programs seeking to control increasing costs can not only have the opposite effect, but in fact place undue hardship and suffering to asthma patients. "We conducted focus groups of both.. WET SEASON WORSENS POLLEN, BUMPER CROP OF WEEDS CAUSING ALLERGY SPIKE SANTA CLARITA Warm winds have dispensed puffs of pollen from budding flowers and wild weeds into the air in abundance because of the record rainfalls in the last months, likely leading to a severe allergy season, health experts say. Allergists at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital say the combined pollen and dust from construction crews, along with high winds, is causing misery around the valley.

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