At 12:07 PM 25/09/96 EDT, you wrote: > SUBJECT: IBUPROFEN > REPRINTED FROM: > APRIL, 1993 > The following ...... is taken from the book "Under- > standing Prescription Drugs", by Dorthy L. Smith, Pharm D., > pp. 270 and 271; Reference: British Medical Journal 292:378, > 1986. > DID YOU KNOW THAT? The rest of the article quotes 2 anecdotes about beekeepers who had developed good tolerance for stings becoming very sensitive to stings after taking some "new fangled" drugs. The article warns beekeepers to be careful until more is known about the subject. The original article quoted is 10 years old. Has there been any more research on this topic in the last 10 years? There has been quite a bit of discussion on this topic lately. A lot of it appears to come from people like myself with very little (no?) understanding of pharmacology. Consequently I am not sure how much confidence I should put on these contributions. It would help if subscribers could find/quote some authoritative and up to date research on this point. I am in the software industry and cannot help in this direction. I have seen contributions from people in medicine. There are probably several subscribers with connections in medical research. If you are one of these people, please dig around and see what you can find. I am editor for our association's new letter and would very much like to publish something on this topic but I need to find something that is "officially recognized". Regards Chris Allen