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Although I’ve written on my own site about the case of Penelope Dingle before – it being a case from my home town and since her husband, Peter Dingle, was a regular figure in schools due to his health lectures – I had lost track of when the eventual findings would be Continue reading The Sad Saga Of Penelope Dingle Concludes – The ‘Vulnerable’ Prey Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Gardasil has been cropping up recently on anti-vax sites and may indicate a shifting of the goalposts. Continue reading On Gardasil and Goalposts I have researched the links between body image, mass media, dieting, eating disorders, and body dissatisfaction for many years. I first became interested in the topic after reading Naomi Wolf’s best-seller The Beauty Myth, in which Wolf claimed that images of thin women in the mass media caused, or at least contributed to, eating disorders Continue reading A Closer Look at the Famous Fiji “TV Causes Anorexia” Study In earlier posts about abuse, I already discussed what abuse is and I shared my own experience. In the comments section of a post on skepchick, I already briefly touched on the subject of safety plans. Since that discussion was situation-specific, I’m sure it would be helpful if I gave a more Continue reading Reaching Safety: Early Steps in Leaving Abuse I suppose this will be the first post on SheThought ever written from a hospital bed. If nothing else, heavy narcotic use (legal) will probably make for an interesting post. I ended up here at the local hospital last week when I was sent to the ER for a CAT scan. I only had one Continue reading The Milk of Human Kindness and a Morphine Drip 
The King’s Speech details the drama that ensued when a would-be leader, Prince Albert of England (Colin Firth), second son of George V, found his lifelong stammer as an obstacle to his royal duty to address the public on the new medium of radio in the 1930s. Bertie, as Albert was known to his Continue reading It’s Not What You Say; It’s How You Say It! It has been suggested to me, in the past, to use my education to help people learn about general nutrition. This is a disturbing task to undertake because people don’t want to hear about realities regarding health and nutrition, especially when everything they see seems to contradict each other. While it is true that navigating Continue reading Why You Should Hate Weight Loss Tips Uness Nyambi, now about 17, was betrothed as a child so her parents could finance her brother's choice of a bride and now has two children and a husband around 70. (Venessa Vick for the New York TImes) I awoke this morning to news that the United States House of Representatives failed to pass Continue reading Who’s In Favor of Child Marriage?
Picture from medicine world. Yesterday, I talked about the flu virus and how it’s weird segmented RNA genome makes it a constantly moving target, one that requires vaccine manufacturers to adjust their aim for every flu seasons. So now we will talk about that a bit Continue reading The Flu Part 2 – The vaccine The flu virus, picture found on http://www.lsfnet.org.
Winter is coming (in April 2011)… And with winter, is also coming the flu season. I wrote about vaccines quite a bit already a barely more than a month ago (if you missed it and are curious, the whole series was split Continue reading The flu – Part 1: The virus |
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