The academy offers a checklist of tips and a sample food allergy action plan to keep communication flowing. Both can be downloaded at no cost at www.aaaai.org.

Here’s a short list the academy shared to start parents on the right path:

• Inform the school cafeteria, teachers and other staff, including the school nurse, what foods your child must avoid.
• Pack bag lunches.
• Send safe snacks to school anytime the classroom is having a party.
• Advocate “no eating” policies on buses and in other settings where children are not supervised.
• Be aware of the expiration dates on self-injectable epinephrine.
• Keep in contact with your allergist to make sure all medicine is current and replaced prior to expiration.
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BOULDER, Colo.– /BUSINESS WIRE/ — Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY) today announced positive top-line results from a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of ARRY-797, a novel, orally administered, small molecule pan-cytokine inhibitor, in patients with post-surgical dental pain. ARRY-797 achieved its primary and secondary endpoints for analgesic efficacy and was well tolerated. Based on these results, Array is moving forward with a second Phase 2 acute inflammatory pain trial comparing various doses of ARRY-797 to placebo and to celecoxib. Array also plans to initiate a Phase 2 study of ARRY-797 in ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic, painful, inflammatory disorder known to respond to biologic TNF inhibitors.

The analgesic effect of 400 mg of ARRY-797, compared to placebo, was statistically significant based upon the primary endpoint of total pain relief over six hours post dose (pless than0.0001). The analgesic effect was also statistically significant for total pain relief over three, eight, » Read the rest of the entry..

By SUSAN OLP
Of The Gazette Staff
Bev Reeves had a smile on her face Saturday as she danced the precise steps of the cha-cha, her arms extended in front of her, in the center court at Rimrock Mall.

The 67-year-old Lockwood woman was one of many people who took part in the “Day of Dance for Health” sponsored by St. Vincent Healthcare and Spirit of Women.

Back to dancing

But for Reeves, the moment was especially sweet. One year ago, on Feb. 23, 2007, Reeves suffered a heart attack. Now she’s back to taking private dance lessons and dancing in a group each week, and sometimes going dancing on “I love it so much,” she said, after the music ended and she came off the dance floor. “I forget all my troubles when I’m out there dancing.”
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Hygiene probably is not something that crosses college students’ minds every day, but it is something they probably deal with by showering and brushing their teeth daily. Here are some tips that might help improve basic hygiene and make life more pleasurable for everyone.

Teeth

Plaque is the bacteria that causes cavities. According to healthyteeth.org, it is the only bacteria in the mouth that causes cavities.

The site also points out a diet heavy in sugar is harmful, because plaque uses sugar as a form of energy. So, the more sugar a person eats, the more plaque they will have on their teeth.

Solutions to this plaque problem are regular trips to the dentist and brushing and flossing teeth twice daily, for at least two and half to three minutes, according » Read the rest of the entry..

Michelle Schoffro Cook doesn’t look like a woman who has danced with death. Where, one wonders, is the consumptive, Camille-like pallor, the dark circles? Even a whiff of quietly heroic martyrdom would do.

If such a struggle exists, the Ottawa-based author and doctor of natural medicine has cleverly disguised it under a cheerful mop of ringlets, twinkling eyes and one of those complicated, layered outfits that requires the wearer to adopt the insouciance that comes only from sporting something called a “shrug.”

She’s chattering about snow — adores emphatic Ottawa winters, loathes the soggy west coast variety — while touting her latest book, The Ultimate pH Solution: Balance Your Body Chemistry to Prevent Disease and Lose Weight. » Read the rest of the entry..

NEW YORK (AP) — Fawzia Rasheed de Francisco, who has advised 16 governments and the United Nations on health policy, started traveling with her younger son when he was two weeks old. Her older son celebrated his first birthday on his fifth continent.

Now she’s offering the wisdom she accumulated during all those travels with her children to the rest of us in a new book called The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies & Young Children (Rough Guides, $15.99).

The book includes a variety of tips, including coping with road trips and plane travel; health concerns; entertaining kids on the road; and cultural issues. For example, the writer notes that in India, “get your children to apologize profusely if they inadvertently touch someone with their shoes, as this is considered especially offensive.” In Thailand, “kids who make light of inconveniences are thought to be especially well brought up.” And remember that “patting children on the head is considered disrespectful in many countries.” » Read the rest of the entry..

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Howard Stark’s office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist.

Instead, he and his assistant Michele Norris-Bell check e-mail alerts on handheld devices and — between seeing patients in person — on a desktop computer.

Stark has moved most of his practice, based in Washington, onto the Internet and he couldn’t be happier. Since he started his Web-based service two years ago, he has received 14,000 e-mails.

And yet, he feels more like an old-fashioned family doctor in a small town than a modern, harried physician.
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Follow is six tips for sleep, a few simple suggestions away tonight.

According to a National Sleep Foundation survey, 60 percent of American women say they sleep poorly most nights. Fortunately, you don’t have to take insomnia lying down. Here are hints that may help from Ladies’ Home Journal magazine, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year:

• Exercise around 5-7 P.M. to reduce stress and induce tiredness.

• Start dimming the lights around 7 or 8 P.M., suggests Marcel Hungs, M.D., Ph.D., to get your body primed for sleep.

• Put a couple of drops of lavender oil on a handkerchief and tuck it into your pillow, suggests Cherie Perez, R.N.
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ICELANDIC nursing practices are to be introduced in the Lothians after a fact-finding mission to the Scandinavian country.
Alison Jarvis, project manager for the Review of Nursing in the Community, was accompanied on the recent visit by two colleagues from NHS Borders.

She said: “Iceland has a generic model of provision with community nursing teams covering post-natal care, mothers and children, home nursing, treatment room nursing and a telephone advice service.”

Ms Jarvis added that lessons learned on the trip would help health partnerships test and develop the role of the new community health nurses, set to be introduced in the Lothians under a Scottish Government pilot.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning with blizzard-like conditions possible beginning Tuesday afternoon and continuing to midnight.

The National Weather Service has also issued a Wind Chill Advisory for the Milwaukee area starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing to noon Wednesday.

Temperatures are expected to plummet to zero degrees and below with strong wind gusts and wind chills of 20 to 30 degrees below zero.

The Milwaukee Health Department says if precautions are not taken, bitterly cold temperatures coupled with strong winds could result in severe frostbite and hypothermia. Hypothermia occurs when the body loses heat faster than it can produce it and results in abnormally low body temperature, a potentially life-threatening condition. » Read the rest of the entry..