Sulfa allergy is a term used to describe adverse drug reactions to sulfonamides, a group of drugs that includes those with and without antibiotic characteristics. Antibiotic sulfonamides were the first antibiotics used to treat infections, although today are used much less frequently given their common side effects.
City Hall offices may need new furniture when Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio takes over from Mayor Bloomberg, who stands 10 inches shorter than him. De Blasio, at 6 feet 5 inches, will be New York City's tallest mayor in recent memory. Ed Koch was said to be taller than 6 feet, Rudy Giuliani and David Dinkins were of average height, and Bloomberg once referred to himself as 5-foot-7. Bloomberg infamously listed his height as 5-foot-10 on his drivers license, but he was not the shortest mayor by far.
Tallest man in the world - 8-foot-1 Sultan Kosen - visits New York City. Towering Turk Sultan Kosen, 26 - world's tallest man at 8-feet-1 - dwarfs his little brother Hasan, 25, as two stroll 47th St. Sunday. Here's a guy you can't help but look up to. The newly-crowned tallest man in the world took a short stroll through the Big Apple on Sunday, making even jaded New Yorkers stop in their tracks. Towering Turk Sultan Kosen, who stands 8-feet-1, sauntered across Fifth Ave., surrounded by a throng of curious onlookers. The 26-year-old gentle giant seemed to take his newfound fame in very big stride.