Christmas Decorations

Santa's Girl

A Small Christmas Tree

The Snow Queen

Frontispiece

Over in Norfolk I came across this shed, looking very appealing with its red trailer parked-up inside. A typical corrugated iron structure, ...

Use your extra hour this weekend to check your emergency stockpile

What would you do with an extra hour? With daylight saving time ending this weekend, you have a chance to find out. And APHA has the perfect...

How to Turn a Curl

(Click on images to see full-size.) Source: A Girl and Her Hair, 1949

Are you in a priority group and worried because you can't get vaccine?

from this week's update on H1N1 in Maine: H1N1 Vaccine Supply and Prioritization As of October 28, a total of 99,000 doses of vaccine ha...

European Society of anti-aging Medicine

Austria Czech Republics Czecho-Slovak Association of Anti-Aging Medicine (CSAAAM) France Société Française de Médecine et physiologie du v...

The wine glass looks half full

Not unexpectedly, the news media embraced and eagerly reported the latest revelation about the health benefits of red wine . The study, pub...

Providing information or promoting drugs?

On 12 September, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials released finalized recommendations for drug makers that wish to provide m...

Pediatric placebos

When I was a small child, I had an earache, so I asked my dad for a Band Aid. The source of my discomfort was an inner ear infection, so ant...

Cozy Winter Afternoons

Jingle Bells

Blue and Silver

White Christmas

Lancashire Hotspot

Early last August a friend and I found ourselves in the Forest of Bowland , by the simple expedient of following a little road out of the ba...

Christmas Tree Decorations

Christmas Decorations

Find The Fault No 45

Well, what can I say. There are enough 'faults' here to keep us going for some time I should think. My main concern is why a 1950...

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

The Singing Keyhole

We're so used to seeing humour in the ornamentation of medieval churches- gargoyles, fantastical corbels, carved bench ends- but Victori...

Christmas Tree Decorations

Santa's Coming

Powder Puff Pointers

(Click on image for a larger version.) Source: How to Find Your Man by Joe Bonomo, 1954

Gene mutation may reveal clues for treating lung diseases

Oct. 15, 2009 -- A genetic mutation found in four children born with multiple abnormalities may provide insight into potential treatments fo...

Scientists identify roots of diabetic tissue damage

Oct. 21, 2009 -- Results from comprehensive assessments of diabetes' effects on cell metabolism may aid efforts to reduce diabetic damag...

White and Red

Red & White

Vintage Christmas

Christmas Gifts

Getting the H1N1 vaccine: The waiting is the hardest part

Today's guest blog entry is by Katie Dineley, a student at the University of Maryland. She was among the first to receive the H1N1 influ...

Christmas Hearts

White and Blue

Railway Echo No 12

Marefield is remote Leicestershire, up on the eastern approaches not far from the borders with Rutland. The Great Northern Railway opened a ...

Butter vs. Margarine

I came across an interesting  study the other day, courtesy of Dr. John Briffa's blog . It's titled "Margarine Intake and Sub...

Christmas and Berries

Little Dreamer

Find The Fault No 44

Apologies for that break in transmission. Candles and whiffs of steam are intermittently available, so I'm typing very quickly before th...

They Go Together

(Click on the images for full size versions.) Source: American Hairdresser, April 1943