Guns don’t kill people?
The often cited mantra of the pro-gun lobby. Maybe guns don’t kill people in themselves, but they do make it a damn sight easier. An Australian study reviewing 10 years of suicide data following the former Howard government’s gun buyback has found the rate of firearms suicides has fallen by 74 percent. Mr Howard’s agreement [...]
Oh my god! My eyes, my eyes ….. there’s vaginas on the TV
And no, its not because I was watching porn. An episode of the ABC TV show “Hungry Beast” generated a bit of controversy this week with a story about the (soft) porn industry’s airbrushing of female genitalia, which gave an unrealistic image of what was “normal”. Soft porn magazine publishers claimed they were forced to [...]
Oh shit! So it doesn’t only happen in jokes
This is the sort of thing you think has got to be a joke, surely it couldn’t happen in real life? Doctors in Peru amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realised their mistake. He went in to have his right leg removed as it had an [...]
Beer is good for you
I knew it, but there’s now scientific evidence to back it up. Tests have revealed that men who drink beer may reduce their chances of developing prostate cancer. Experiments have shown that xanthohumol, a compound derived from the hops in beer, blocks a chemical reaction that can lead to the development of cancer. Study leader [...]
Help, ambulance, I need to get to hospital
Well not in this case. A patient in the Hobart Private Hospital noticed some bleeding from a wound drain after some surgery he’d had. He rang the call bell to get some assistance. After 10 minutes and no response, he rang his wife who rang the nurses’ station. Again, no response. He then rang 000 [...]
It just wasn’t meant to be – take 2
Matthew Millington was a British soldier who developed an incurable lung condition while serving in Iraq. A year later he was told he would die in two years unless he had a transplant. So he had the lung transplant. And died later of lung cancer. It turned out the organs donated to him came from [...]
Pigs catch swine flu from humans
A pig farm in central NSW has its pigs in quarantine, with swine flu. It is believed that they caught it from workers at the farm. I see a delicious irony in pigs catching swine flu from humans. Veterinarians and emergency disease response specialists are at the Dunedoo piggery tracing the movements of people, animals, [...]
Drunk to death aged 22
I just saw this story of British man, Gary Reinbach, who died aged 22 of liver failure, caused by severe cirrhosis of the liver. Gee, I thought, that would have taken some serious drinking to get to the point of killing him at such a young age. Reinbach began binge drinking when he was just [...]
Swine flu
Got this from someone at work today – I love it. Poor Piglet! Poor Ian, too … I’ve developed a raging attack of the sniffles since last night to go with my jet lag from my trip to New York. I trust its not swine flu, just a result of going from cold to hot [...]
Beer goggles = myth (what will ugly people do for sex now?)
Beer goggles – the tendency of finding people more attractive as you get more drunk, has been debunked, at least somewhat, in a UK research study. British forensic psychologist Vincent Egan took to venues in Scotland to test the beer goggle theory. Dr Egan said: “We got 240 people out in the field in bars [...]
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