New backing for banned allergy cure
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In a new report published on 22 June 1998, the use of immunotherapy to treat allergies has been approved by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), even though it has not been used in the UK for more than 10 years following the deaths of a number of patients being treated in this way. According to the WTO, immunotherapy is still the only treatment that tackles the causes of allergies as oppose to the symptoms, which can be treated effectively with tablets and inhalers, and new research into the nature of allergic diseases together with the development of new technologies, means that immunotherapy will be used in a safer way in the future to target a whole range of allergies, not just pollen based ones and insect stings. The high cost of the treatment is a prohibitive factor, even though it is now widely recognised that the number of people affected by allergies is increasing.
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UK: Immunotherapy to treat allergies approved by World Trade Organization though it is not used in nation for more than 10 yrs
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Welcome to the legion of the banned
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The BBFC has recently refused to issue a video certificate for Ray Brady's horror film 'Boy Meets Girl.' A refusal is not particularly unusual, but has attracted controversy in this case because this is a serious feature film, even though it contains violence. By refusing a certificate, the BBFC seems to be treating it like a down-market sex film. Brady made the film partly in order to make a point about the BBFC's censorship of violent films.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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Sentenced to Hollywood
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Eddie Bunker is a 62-year-old crimewriter who began writing in prison at the age of nineteen. It was not until the age of 36, in 1973, that Bunker had a novel, his sixth, published. In the meantime he had been alternating between crime and writing. Bunker now also writes scripts for films and had a role in Quentino Tarantino's film, 'Reservoir Dogs', as Mr. Blue. Bunker claims to have learned a lot about screenwriting from the film.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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