Check out @ProfessorFunk’s kinetic typography take on the utter weirdness of placebos, based on information from @BenGoldacre’s superlative book, Bad Science.
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis
June 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be a tragic disease which usually affects adults in the prime of their lives, and may even occur in childhood. Many authorities suggest there is little that people can do for themselves apart from taking medication and waiting until they deteriorate.
How’s Your Sugar?
June 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
The How’s Your Sugar? website deals with the issues faced by Australian Indigenous people in ‘living well’ with type 2 diabetes. It uses peer-to-peer narrative through interactive video clips and simple graphics to help explain the importance of food, exercise, medication and smoking cessation on controlling diabetes.
Masculus Influentia
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I Heart Guts
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You’ve gotta love I Heart Guts, the brainchild of an anatomically obsessed illustrator. Here are two posters vital for Men’s health.
Health Promotion is a joke
September 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I, like Croakey from Crikey, have enjoyed some of the Governmental approaches to utilising media strategies to provide health promotion. Unfortunately most of the recent Australian Health campaigns have been a little ‘dry’ and hard to take in so we have to resort to the power of social media to spread the health promotion message [...]
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
September 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Just finished reading an amazing manuscript…’Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis: An Evidence-Based Guide to Recovery‘. It was a real eye opener! The book examines the fundamental determinants of ‘stress’ and critically evaluates the evidence associated with both the ‘prevention of’ and ‘recovery from’ illness – in particular multiple sclerosis (MS) Work + Expectation + Lifestyle = Stress [...]
Medical twitter
June 10, 2009 By 4 Comments
BMJ Careers have published an easy to follow demystification of twitter for doctors written by Alexander Young and Jonathan Bloor. It is well worth reading. Twitter is a growing and hugely popular website and is an ideal medium for disseminating information to users quickly. Although it is primarily a social networking site, it has been [...]
Cough or kill
May 21, 2009 By 2 Comments
I am a belligerent skeptic of over-the-counter cough and cold medications. I’ve been this way since well before I ever entertained the idea of being a doctor. The late Michael Shannon (also known as the ‘dancing doctor‘) nicely summed up the problems with this group of medications: ‘The problem with cough and cold medications are [...]
Theophylline overdose
May 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
Toxicological evaluation and treatment of a patient with theophylline toxicity
