Sentences with phrase «doctors in cold states»

It also examines various theories about the cause of food allergies, including the «hygiene hypothesis» (i.e., our children's environments are too sterile) and the theory that vitamin D may play a role (doctors in cold states write three to four times as many prescriptions for epinephrine than doctors in warm states).

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The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Science, * hold out the hope of diminishing a malady almost as common as the common cold: UTIs send 1.5 million people — mostly women — to the hospital each year in the United States alone, and 7 million more to their doctors.