Trudie Goodwin, best know for her role as Sergeant June Ackland in ITV's The Bill, officially opened the new osteoporosis unit at Guy's Hospital last week.
The first Malaysian to be awarded a scholarship by the University of Harvard in the US, Tunku Dr Sharifah ElizahCornelia Jamalullail, 29, is undertake a study in psychiatry. The scholarship, under the auspices of The Mahadevan Fellowship, enables Dr Sharifah Elizah to continue her studies at the Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts Hospital, which has been recognised as the world’s best hospital
Aud from Norway is this weeks Friday Sketchers host, and it's her very first time on the FS blog. The sponsor for this weeks challenge is Sassy Studio Designs. Stampin' for the Weekend have a fantastic challenge entitled "Back to the 80's" intriguing eh?! They'd like to see us use the following Colour Combination on our cards and projects this week! AND Use one of the following Song Titles...
"When researchers electronically stimulated the part of the brain that feels pleasure, they found that the rats on unlimited junk food needed more and more stimulation to register the same level of pleasure as the animals on healthier diets." Junk food is almost as addictive as heroin, scientists have found. 28 Oct 2009 A diet of burgers, chips, sausages and cake will programme your brain...
Andy McNab DCM MM (born 28 December 1959)is an English novelist and former soldier. McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the failed SAS patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1991. McNab was additionally the recipient of the Military Medal in 1980, awarded for an action whilst serving with the Royal Green Jackets in...
Both regular readers will know that I am partial to a good simulacrum (or a bad one), be it Allahu Akbar written in the seeds of an aubergine, the face of Jesus on a griddle or even Our Lord on the arse of a terrier. It is thus with great pleasure to note the appearance of Caerphily’s greatest son on the base of a pie. According to Wales Online , chip shop owner Crad Jones was tucking into his...
Guy's tower, that hulking bastard of concrete next to London Bridge, looks all set for a piscatorial makeover. Several posters in the area boast of 're-cladding the tower wing facade...to improve its appearance and energy consumption: Completes end of 2012'. The scaly reskin has been on the cards for a while, but this is the first public signal we've seen confirming intent. Guy's reckons to be the...
Here’s my planned mapping for the next extension to the City of London orienteering map: The plan is to do one of the nine sectors every three weeks between January and June next year. The sectors are: St Katherine’s Docks Shad Thames Pool of London London Bridge Station Guy’s Hospital Borough Southwark Bankside Borough Market
Thanks again to Wendi at My Meso . org for the info below. A clinical trial for patients with malignant mesothelioma is currently recruiting participants. The trial is sponsored by Papworth Hospital in the UK , although it is open to any mesothelioma patient that meets the criteria. This study will evaluate video-assisted surgery to see how well it works compared with talc pleurodesis in treating patients...
Lord McColl's role as consultant to Endeavour Health a 'perfectly satisfactory state of affairs', says Tory leader David Cameron today defended his shadow health spokesman Lord McColl of Dulwich, after it emerged that the peer is a paid consultant to a new private healthcare company that provides a paid-for rival to the NHS's GP service. The Times reported McColl's links as the Tory party sought to...
Pioneer of effective treatments to help people stop smoking By the 1960s, the emerging evidence of the danger of cigarette smoking was clear, but there was very little understanding of why people smoked. Cigarette smoking was generally thought of as a habit, with pharmacological factors receiving little or no attention. Michael Russell, who has died at the age of 77 from a heart attack, was the man...
'Come and see a cabinet filled with hairy, infected groins, each one disfigured with its own strain of oozing canker,' begins the press release. Not the official press release, of course, but the one we're mentally composing as we tour the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition. The incongruously named ' Exquisite Bodies ' is anchored around a remarkable congeries of wax models. Many are anatomical...
This year we’ve decided to do things a little differently. Each year we ask you guys, the fans, to contribute towards our latest “gift” to Rupert – whether it be converse shoelaces, Spongebob themed memorabilia or ice cream ideas. But for his 21st birthday we wanted to do something big, so we put our heads together and brainstormed. At every turn we encountered the same problem:...
Sorry for not posting the last couple of days...things have been rather... interesting , shall we say... Looking back, everything actually sort of started on Monday (which seems an awfully long way away now), Flyingpops was complaining that she was in quite a bit of pain, which she was putting down to indigestion, so we self-medicated her with a glug or two of Gaviscon, some deflatine tablets and a...
The Making of Miranda (2009), by Miranda Ponsonby, is the true story of Rhodri Davies ( an aristocrat ) Six feet tall Rhodri has been a big game hunter, a soldier with the Life Guards and a gentleman farmer. Rhodri's home contains pictures of Rhodri's two sons at Eton, and pictures of Rhodri riding behind the Queen in Whitehall and Rhodri on the polo field. At his private school Rhodri had sex with...
The first Malaysian to be awarded a scholarship by the University of Harvard in the US, Tunku Dr Sharifah ElizahCornelia Jamalullail, 29, is undertake a study in psychiatry. The scholarship, under the auspices of The Mahadevan Fellowship, enables Dr Sharifah Elizah to continue her studies at the Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts Hospital, which has been recognised as the world’s best hospital for...