Health News and Information

If a child is suspected of having allergies, a confirmation is possible through the following means: an allergic history, a physical examination, laboratory tests, a study of the environment, and a diet evaluation. When this workup points toward an allergy, skin tests and a Rast reaction test will detect the cause or causes of the [...]

The question of how many psychosomatic cases the average family doctor sees is an interesting one. One survey concluded that a full third of patients have some psychological element in their illness, with 18 per cent showing purely psychiatric or psychosomatic symptoms. Other studies put the figure even higher, some as high as 50 per [...]