One man's pursuit of evidence-based medicine. Another Greek hero. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269 It's a great read - here's the first section to whet your appetites. In 2001, rumors were circulating in Greek hospitals that surgery Continue Reading
Health for All
Whatever happened to Health for All? Ups and downs of protection of breastfeeding, regulation of transnational corporations and Health for All, by Lida Llotska http://www.gifa.org/files/protection.pdf Continue Reading
The Power of Placebo
This Guardian article was interesting, with quite a balanced attitude to harmless interventions such as homeopathy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/feb/06/homeopathy-homeopathic-nhs-placebo-effect I want to read his book, so will review it here when I have. If you've read it, please Continue Reading
Do We Need Antibiotics for Premature Rupture of Membranes?
Articles The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9646, Pages 1310 - 1318, 11 October 2008 Editors' note: In 2001, the ORACLE I trial showed that in women with premature rupture of the fetal membranes, but no overt sign of infection, erythromycin and co-amoxiclav prolonged pregnancy and erythromycin also Continue Reading
Homebirth in the news
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1084097/I-gave-birth-bathroom---women-babies-hospital.html Continue Reading
Babies hit the Bottle
Any Ideas What's Wrong with This?http://www.babysportonline.eu/A gold star for the first person to give me more than one reason why this product is raising my blood pressure! Continue Reading
outrage behind bars
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1184614595/bctid1772034200 Continue Reading
It’s September already!
New Month, New LifeHi, I'm back! Feel like it's been a long time since I was able to sit down at my keyboard and waffle. Since I last posted, we have moved house, the children have started their new school, I've had a tooth abcess and root canal work and Linda and I have started off another group of Continue Reading
Linda and I seem to have successfully put a group together for doula training in September. It looks like we have 7 or 8 wonderful women coming, so room for one or 2 more...The groups seem to come together in the same way every time - we worry that we won't get anyone enquiring, then boom we get 3 Continue Reading
Well, we've exchanged contracts! We have a moving date of Friday next week. I do really hope this is the last time we move for a good long time; I'm tired of packing, unpacking and carting the children from pillar to post. Now I've got the major nesting urge I never really got when I was pregnant Continue Reading