There has been a huge increase in asthma in Western countries since the early 1960s. Asthma currently kills nearly 2000 people a year in England and Wales yet in 1929, Conybeare's Textbook of Medi ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is found throughout the world and is thought to affect one or two people in every 1000. It is named after William Parkinson, who first described it as ‘the shaking palsy’ in 1817.
Most household cleaners are a witch's brew of toxic chemicals, industrial waste and carcinogens when all you need are some old fashioned cleaning staples and a bit of elbow grease. ...
Levels of pesticides found in our bodies are dangerously above those reckoned to be safe and could be responsible for many cancers and the epidemic of infertility. ...
Finding the source of eczema, like many other chronic diseases, appears to be a matter of persistent detective work. Don't get discouraged if your first approach doesn't work keep looking until y ...
Your November issue discusses chemical sensitivity. Like many others, I have been damaged by pesticides. Although much improved, my life will never be the same again.
Tourette’s syndrome, which causes embarrassing nervous facial tics, has increased fourfold in the past 20 years. One study in Rochester, New York, found that one out of four students
During the UK's national Swimfit week in June I took my 14-month-old son to our local pool. It was so dirty I refused to take him in. Sunlight streaming in through the window illuminated a cloud o ...
Cosmetics can contain frank carcinogens - which are inherently carcinogenic - or hidden carcinogens - which become carcinogenic under certain circumstances, such as when mixed, or
Theron Randolph, the great pioneer of clinical ecology (the study of allergy or sensitivity to substances in the environment), developed the theory that illness is caused when the body's ability to detoxify environmental stressors is overloaded (Ann...