Diane Witherspoon was in her early forties and had started having a problem with alcohol when she worked as a stewardess, more than a decade before. Her excessive drinking continued when she got an influential job in politics and became exacerbated when she got married and had a child. Within three days of giving birth, [...]

Dry cleaning can be a source of trouble for chemically susceptible persons. Clothes which have been dry-cleaned may retain traces of the fluids used by the cleaning establishment. Some dry cleaners now add soil retardants or moth repellants to the dry cleaning fluids. This is a hazardous practice. Some individuals are so susceptible to these [...]

An earache is any pain or ache in the ear. Earaches may occur at any age from infancy on. However, they usually occur less and less often after the age of eight. The most common cause of an earache is blockage of the Eustachian tube (which connects the nose with the middle ear). This tube [...]