Our Christmas celebrations were slightly marred by one of our number coming down with a nasty bug – probably Norovirus or the 'winter vomiting bug' – that causes vomiting, diarrhoea, a temperature, headaches and stomach cramps. For everyone's information it normally goes away …
Conventional Medicine
Treating childhood cancer in the US is a dangerous business…
The full story of Jim and Donna Navarro's unsuccessful struggle to get their four-year-old son, Thomas' cancer treated by anything other than chemotherapy is now quite well known in the US and is told in a lengthy interview and on a documentary film, both available from the Dr …
Fundraising for Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
The other day I met a nice young man in the butchers. Well, ours is that kind of butcher (Barretts in England's Lane, NW3 if anyone wants to know). I was dithering about what size chicken to buy (see next weekend's newsletter for the resulting recipe) when said nice young man …
Dr Briffa on ‘flu vaccines and conflicts of interest
While on the subject of medical newsletters - you can see that this is a Sunday clear-out of my email in-box. Two posts from Dr John Briffa (another oasis of good sense in a sometimes non-sensical medical world). The 'flu vaccine. He had noted, as have I, the 'roll up, roll up …
Male Menopause, Hypothyroidism and Dr Chris Steele
Anyone who has had dealings with database driven newsletter programmes knows that they are temperamental creatures who certainly do not always obey instructions and often go off on a riff totally of their own. We've been there... So, when someone else's programme behaves in a …