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Clinical Immunology

  • Dining

    April 12, 2012

    Company Cafe's Growing Pains

    A rapidly expanding restaurant learns good hands are hard to find.

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Texas' New Food Cottage Law Might Actually Mean Something for Home Bakers After All

    The Texas Baker's Bill is getting closer to being useful to bakers. Late last week, news circulated about new language for the Texas Food Cottage Law, which passed last year and allows home bakers to legally sell their goods with a few certain conditions. After the law was passed, the Texas Departm ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2011

    Conquering Culinary Challenges

    The Texas Baker's Bill is getting closer to being useful to bakers. Late last week, news circulated about new language for the Texas Food Cottage Law, which passed last year and allows home bakers to legally sell their goods with a few certain conditions. After the law was passed, the Texas Departm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Be Aware of Celiac Disease. Just Today Though.

    Gluten-free brownies. ​The U.S. Senate has officially declared today National Celiac Disease Awareness Day. So, we all need to stop at some point and think about our annoying friends who can't eat anything because ... OK. OK. You're not annoying. Your disease is annoying. And, honestly, we hat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    A Spoonful Of Honey May Not Keep Your Allergies Down, But It's Tasty Enough To Try

    ​I've been eying the weather channel a lot lately. Not for the temperature, but for the pollen count, which apparently will begin an upward march as soon as the mercury begins to wane and the fall allergy season kicks off. Allergies aren't good for food critics, as you might have heard. I've ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 16, 2011

    Company Cafe: Healthy Food Can Be Good. Who Knew?

    Try some local, organic, gluten-free food without a 'tude.

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Homegrown Food Remedies: Another Reason to Love Big Pharma

    Butter: Lousy for burns and doesn't prevent STDs, or so we've heard.​I am suspicious of at-home remedies. I don't believe in a cure until a stranger in a white coat feels up my glands and then prescribes it to me, in the form of an innocuous-looking pill, a potentially addicting spray or a vil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Subway Tests a Gluten-Free Sandwich in Dallas

    ​Customers at Dallas area Subway restaurants will soon be able to ask their sandwich artists to hold the gluten. According to a release published on Celiac.com, billed as the "first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease," Subway plans to test a gluten-free roll and gluten-fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    Beers Of The Year

    Don't criticize it.​Overall, it's been another great year for beer, at least from my perspective here in North Texas. If I didn't suspect reader list burnout, I could probably do another top 10 piece on the best developments of the past year, and even another on things I'm most looking forward to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Mayor Tom, Prominent Doctors and the Great Cliff Harris All Come Together To Fight Diabetes

    Photos by Andrea GrimesDallas Cowboy football legend Cliff Harris came to hear Mayor Leppert and crew call for participants in a new diabetes study at UT-Southwestern.​Mayor Tom Leppert and wife Laura, representatives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, city council member Delia Jasso, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Trendsetters: Five Foods and Drinks That Had (Mostly) a Good Year

    Man, we are so sick of eating all that kamut.​2010 was supposed to be kamut's year. Industry watchers in 2009 predicted the wheat-like grain associated with King Tut would ride a celiac wave to greatness this year, sharing American pantries with papadum and coconut-milk pancake mix. The big n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Could You Be Allergic to Barbecue?

    Patrick Michels​It's football season, which means tailgaters are weekly firing up their cookers and churning out meaty pork ribs, tender beef briskets and an array of other smoke-kissed meats that seasonal allergy sufferers might want to avoid. I spent five hours with an allergist yesterday, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Cats vs. Squirrels: Who Do You Hate Worse?

    ​You know how I feel about squirrels, but ... When I was a kid - thankfully I only have a vague memory of the experience - I underwent this allergy test. A bunch of razor-blade nicks in my bare back to see how I reacted to chemicals and whatnot. Result: I am allergic to Penicillin. The r ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    The Real World

    ​You know how I feel about squirrels, but ... When I was a kid - thankfully I only have a vague memory of the experience - I underwent this allergy test. A bunch of razor-blade nicks in my bare back to see how I reacted to chemicals and whatnot. Result: I am allergic to Penicillin. The r ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 14, 2007

    Because I Got High

    ​You know how I feel about squirrels, but ... When I was a kid - thankfully I only have a vague memory of the experience - I underwent this allergy test. A bunch of razor-blade nicks in my bare back to see how I reacted to chemicals and whatnot. Result: I am allergic to Penicillin. The r ... More >>

  • Music

    February 15, 2007

    Ben Kweller

    Monday, February 26, at Gypsy Tea Room

  • Calendar

    December 21, 2006

    The Great Mustachio

    Monday, February 26, at Gypsy Tea Room

  • Calendar

    April 13, 2006

    Eat This

    Monday, February 26, at Gypsy Tea Room

  • Best of Dallas

    October 14, 2004

    Best Easy Theater Night

    Theatre Three at the Quadrangle

  • Culture

    September 9, 2004

    Something to Sneeze At

    Theatre Three blows a big one with Tale of the Allergist's Wife; RTC rolls on Secrets

  • Dining

    June 7, 2001

    Hurricane Warning

    There's more to like about the Hurricane Grill than just the 45-ounce hurricanes

  • Dining

    May 10, 2001

    Din-din

    Rising restaurant noise levels may cause hearing loss. Or maybe not.

  • Dining

    February 22, 2001

    Nutty Fun

    Sometimes you feel like a lawsuit...

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Beggars' banquet

    Dallas' matrons of charity find that ostentation is out and value is in when it comes to raising money

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Desperate Measures

    Tim and Emilie Sherrod, parents of twin autistic boys, will do anything to find a cure -- even spend $14,000 to inject their sons with a hormone from pig entrails

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Unacceptable Risk

    Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Something In The Air

    Downwind of TXI's Midlothian cement plant, people and animals keep getting sick. Instead of investigating whether the plant is to blame, state regulators appear ready to let TXI burn even more hazardous waste. Part two of A Dallas Observer Special Report

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