Food allergy with special reference to corn and refined corn derivatives.
Excerpt At a hearing on "Bread Standards," held during the summer of 1949 before the Federal Security Administrator, consideration was given to the possible allergenic ingredients of bread, includi...
ANAPHYLACTOGENIC PROPERTIES OF MALTED SUGARS AND CORN SYRUP
It has generally been held that only such food substances as contain protein constituents are capable of producing those altered reactions in man which are grouped under the common term allergy. However, there has recently appeared a preparation of dextrimaltose sugar purported to be nonallergic, and the question has been raised as to whether food substances so widely used in infant feeding and ordinarily designated as being carbohydrates may give rise to exacerbations in the allergic person. The substances most commonly used in infant feeding are preparations of malt extracts, of dextrimaltose and of corn syrup. In this study we undertook to determine their anaphylactogenic properties. EXPERIMENTAL DATA Method .—The anaphylaxis method was used in these experiments. Normal guinea-pigs weighing from 250 to 350 Gm. were employed. All the animals were obtained from a reliable source and were raised on a known diet which did not contain barley, corn, wheat
How can the UK National Health Service be broke?
Is the NHS today flabby and inefficient, or an organisation to be proud of, delivering healthcare free at the point of delivery?

A colleague recently took me aside and said conspiratorially, “These NHS deficits—it’s not real money.” Is it true that the National Health Service (NHS) has a deficit of £800 million, and if so, what does this mean for children’s healthcare in the UK?

In 1997, the NHS budget for England was £34 billion (US$63 billion and €50 billion). By 2008, this will have reached £92 billion following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pledge of 7.4% growth year on year in real terms for five consecutive years.1 This has been possible thanks to a booming economy in the UK and low unemployment. Despite this, NHS Trusts are now having to institute draconian measures to balance the books, resorting to job losses and financial turn-around teams. With all this investment, how can the NHS be broke?

Of course, some of this new money has been swallowed up by added costs. The new consultant contract may have added £140 million to NHS costs, and the new General Medical Services contract for general practitioners a further £250 million but against a backdrop of a £58 billion increase, this is not the whole story. More than 190 000 new staff were recruited, of whom managers accounted for only a small fraction, to start to rectify the historical short fall in the NHS workforce. These new staff have to be paid. The expansion of medical student training to almost double what it was a decade ago is already improving the ratio of doctors to patients in the UK to something closer to the western European average. New innovations and new drugs also cost more, and the experience with herceptin, for example, shows that …