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WHAT: The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) brings together leading allergists and immunologists from around the world. 

WHEN: March 2-6, 2012

WHERE: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla.

WHO: Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are among those presenting their latest research findings at the AAAAI Annual Meeting. For more than 60 years, NIAID has supported allergy and immunology research at U.S.

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For me Lent is about emptyinga glass, a basket, a soulso that it can be filled up againwith wine (or sparkling cider), peeps (think Easter basket), and hope. The forty days before Easter is one big humbling exercisewhere you remind yourself that without God, youre nothing but a pile of cinders.

Dont kid yourselves, guys, this liturgical season says. Everything you have become and anything you have accomplished (i.e. your resume) is courtesy of the dude upstairs.

Wearing ashes on your forehead is supposed to have the same effect as, say, an author showing up to her book signing at Borders expecting millions of fans, only to see two peopleher 85-year-old running partner and his wifein the forty chairs set up for the event.

This holy Wednesday is about remembering the beauty of the nothing, as St.

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Knut Tranoy, a philosopher, says that providing patients with medical information is like providing them a pill it has great potential for healing but also potential serious side effects.

As a doctor, it’s my job to determine how much, and how often, to give pills. It seems, though, that when it comes to information, I too often am required to give a full dose.

The medical information I must provide, by law, includes information needed for informed consent what an average person would want and need to know to make a decision about their treatment. Laws aside, there are times when my judgment suggests that giving a person too much information might actually harm them.

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