I love Essie's colors when I go for a mani or pedi, which is all too infrequently.
Essie and Opi seems to have cornered the market on accessible high
fashion nail color that is the most readily available at your local nail salon.
And to boot, Essie's colors have great names. Here's a recent New York Times story about Essie and her naming... Read more
Say your allergies and asthma are a constant struggle. Standard
Western medicine doesn't seem to help or you're tired of taking inhaled
steroids, tired of using your inhaler three or four times a week, tired of not
being able to catch a decent breath: tired of having your life restricted in
too many ways to count.
How radical a... Read more
An entire town in Germany has taken
allergy-friendliness to the next level.
Baabe, Germany
According to The Local, a German news Web site, "The German Baltic Sea resort
town of Baabe is to be named the world's first "allergy-friendly community" by
the European Centre
for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF)."
Now this is news... Read more
Workplace allergy is realAccording to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology as reported by the New York Times: "Workplace allergy, specifically occupational asthma, accounts for about 10 percent of asthma cases in the United States ... Work-induced allergy is fairly simple to diagnose: the symptoms worsen as the workday... Read more
Between January and February 2008, a national telephone
survey was conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Schering-Plough/MERCK
Pharmaceuticals of 1,007 consumers, 1,006 allergy sufferers and 302 physicians.
Specifically, this telephone surveyed the psychosocial aspects of allergies:
ambivalence toward allergies symptoms; the impact and... Read more