Yesterday I bought a roll of 35mm film. I haven’t bought 35mm film for at least three years.
After reading Damian’s comments on film photography I decided to dust off my trusty old 1980 Mamiya SLR, which I used to take hillwalking and climbing to get shots like these.
So next weekend I’m off up Ben [...]
If I woke up tomorrow and, while wandering about in my pajamas searching for sources of caffeine, came to the conclusion that various animal urines could have medicinal properties, you would think I was mad.
Cats being so naturally lithe and nimble, would provide urine which would help ease the pain and immobility of arthritis. [...]
For the past few months there has been a shortage of diamorphine, which is known as heroin when used as a street drug. In clinical practice it is used to treat the pain of myocardial infarction and used in palliative care. It is also used in some schemes which provide heroin addicts with clean [...]
Initially when I read the headline about the giant pebble, as it was disparagingly called by The Sun, installed by University College Hospital as a piece of public art I was somewhat disheartened to see so much spent on a lump of rock – when so many NHS trusts are in financial difficulty.
A HOSPITAL [...]
Animal rights activists who have been holding the body of a woman they dug up hostage and putting a family through hell have got what they wanted.
A Staffordshire farm is to stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research after years of intimidation by animal rights activists.
The family-run Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch has been [...]
Here’s a great example of what some people do for kicks. “Hey, let’s throw any tablets and capsules we can find in our bottle of methadone and make a cocktail”. What you can see below is what they didn’t swallow, and what we discovered when we poured the bottle out into a petri dish. [...]
I’ve had to do a great deal of reading about herbs and other complementary therapies in the past few weeks. What I don’t know about the evidence base for homeopathy, isn’t worth knowing. In fact, what I do know about the evidence-base for homeopathy isn’t worth knowing either!
In Germany complementary therapies have always been more [...]
Advice relating to non-selective NSAIDs:
Non-selective NSAIDs are widely used effective medicines in the treatment of
arthritis and other painful conditions
Prescribing should be based on overall safety profiles of NSAIDs
(particularly gastrointestinal safety) as set out in product information, and
risk factors for individual patients
Switching treatment between non-selective NSAIDs is not justified on the
available evidence
All patients should take lowest [...]
I’ve added a section in the side bar for non-blog material kept on this site. This includes a resource page, and a set of image galleries.
I’ve recently obtained a slide scanner, which means I’ve now been able to put up a gallery of photographs from a 1991 trip to the Alps. In those days I [...]