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From: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown)
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Subject: Re: Ashford&Miller
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Date: 4 Dec 90 16:08:12 GMT
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If your friend is a physician she may be able to get a copy of the health 
and welfare workshop proceedings on this subject by calling Dr. John 
davies, LCDC, Ottawa, (613) 957 0318.  His address is 
Dr. John Davies, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, LCDC, Health and Welfare, 
Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0L2.  He has promised to send a 
copy of their special issue of a regularly published newsletter on 
epidemiology which will cover this topic.
If you decide to look into this subject further, be very careful to 
acvoid doctors who say this problme is "allergy" and that all the varous 
sensitivities people experience are immune-system mediated.  They are 
not, and claims by some doctors that they are have produced a strong 
backlash in the medical community, particularly by one Abba Terr, an 
american doctor whose extreme-to-the-point-of-ridiculous backlash has 
turned a lot of people off the whole issue.
There are tests used in Britain that used to be approved in the U.S. 
which have been questioned on the basis of faulty theory used to explain 
them.  In fact the tests are helpful, even though the theory explaining 
them is highly suspect.

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