Category: Health
Welfare “reform” kills
December 6th, 2011, 4 Comments
Just some of the people who committed suicide after their (disability) benefits were stopped:
Richard Sanderson, 44, an unemployed helicopter pilot of Southfields in London, who stabbed himself twice in the heart in May. He had been informed that his family faced a £30 a week cut in housing benefit and he feared this would leave [...]
“This is the National Health Service — it’s free.”
July 13th, 2011, No Comments
An American blogger in London gets ill, is struck with amazement at how people in civilised countries deal with healthcare:
My name was called after just a couple of minutes in the waiting room. An Asian doctor with a gentle, inquisitive face and a soothing, avuncular manner took my medical history, asked me if I was [...]
Getting a brain tumour is not a learning experience
March 27th, 2011, No Comments
Last year Sarah Pin had to deal with the little problem of a brain tumour which, quite obviously is scary and awful enough in the best of situations. But Sarah lives in the US and therefore had to deal with the third world medical system there. This did not make her happy:
If I have learned [...]
The world *is* getting better
January 7th, 2011, No Comments
Sometimes dry facts and graphs are not enough and you need a little animation to see a hidden truth.
That kidney thing
October 17th, 2010, 1 Comment
If you’re a longtime reader of this blog and still bothering to keep up with us though it is more or less moribund, you may have wondered where Palau has been this past year. Perhaps you’ve also wandered over to Wis[s]e Words and read my posts there about what’s been going on, but I’ve never [...]
What drives me nuts about BBC science reporting
June 21st, 2010, No Comments
Is neatly captured in the above Dilbert strip. Any report about some new research finding out cheese causes cancer in middle aged women e.g. never quantifies the risk enough to know how serious you should take it, nor puts it into context. If there’s a “significant increase” in getting cancer from eating cheese, what does [...]
Wakefield: goat milk as measles vaccine
June 2nd, 2010, No Comments
A week or so ago I posted about Andrew “MMR is bad okay” Wakefield being struck off the medical register and mentioned in passing that he himself had patented a single measles vaccine, to se in place of the MMR vaccine that was supposed to be causing autism in children. He therefore wasn’t just doing [...]
Andrew Wakefield struck off the medical register
May 24th, 2010, No Comments
Good news for once: “dr” Andrew Wakefield, the lying liar who in no way fudged his research to find a link between the MMR vaccine and autism because he himself would financially profit from an increased demand for a single measles vaccine he had patented is to be struck of the medical register:
The doctor who [...]
Don’t Talk To Me About Technology
May 5th, 2010, No Comments
Can you believe this shit?
Here I am, a politics and news junkie stuck here in a Dutch hospital for the past 5 months and on the night before the UK election. my overpriced crap hospital tv,(3 euro a day, run by a private company called PatientLine) and hence my access to BBC’s 1 [...]
Dutch keep bicycling even with Parkinson
April 6th, 2010, No Comments
So it turns out even pople suferring so severely from Parkinson’s disease that they can barely walk, might still be able to cycle normally:
Dr. Bastiaan R. Bloem of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands thought he had seen it all in his years of caring for patients with Parkinson’s disease. But the [...]
