Judy Foreman Author & Journalist

You’re running around getting ready for Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or Ramadan – or just a generic holiday party. You shop. You cook. You get the candles from the bottom drawer, the decorations from the basement. If Christmas is your tradition, you probably get a tree, too, all fragrant and piney.You certainly don’t need…

Max Collins, now 8 and a second grader in Burlington, was a baby when a tiny taste of peanut butter nearly killed him. No sooner had his mom, Lisa, now 32, spread a smidgeon on Max’s lips than he began vomiting and screaming. Huge hives sprouted on his skin. “It was almost simultaneous,” Lisa says….

Just when you thought there was nothing left to blame on El Nino comes this: We’re in for an unusually early – and perhaps long and nasty – allergy season this year. Granted, everybody always thinks whatever allergy season they’re suffering through is the worst ever, but this year, it really will be bad –…

Lise C. Borel, now 42, had been happily practicing dentistry for 10 years when she began noticing welts on her neck whenever she touched herself after removing her latex gloves. Several weeks later, she suddenly found she couldn’t breathe within three minutes of donning her gloves.”I turned incredibly red. I was feeling very odd,” she…

There may still be patches of snow smothering your crocuses, but believe it or not, springtime allergy season is only about 10 days away – and for some poor souls it’s already begun. But you may be able to head off trouble before it starts.At least that’s the current thinking of allergy specialists, who say…