Weekly Update on H1N1 in Maine 9/17/09

Overview US CDC reported 1,380 hospitalizations and 196 deaths nationwide between August 30, and September 5, 2009. As of Sept. 6, the World...

Lung diseases

Lung disease is one of the top diseases in the United States today. Lung disease is on the rise worldwide. Factors such as air quality pl...

Stepping Out

It's so often the little, unnoticed things. A very brief trip into the north of the Cotswolds yesterday brought me yet again to Stanway....

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet

Diabetes is a disorder of glucose intolerance. What happens when a diabetic eats a low-carbohydrate diet? Here's a graph of blood gluc...

How women's bodies have been transformed in the past 60 years...

How women's bodies have been transformed in the past 60 years... This article from the Daily Mail which compares bodies from the 50'...

Turnabout.... It Leads a Double Life!

"What fun!" (Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Find The Fault No 39

Good morning everybody. I think we'll have lot to talk about here, quite apart from the fact that there are actually two faults, one del...

For the Skin He'll Love to Touch

Never wash you face with hot water! use lukewarm water to start... and finish with cold. Cold water makes a velvet skin! (Click on image for...

Brighten Up Your Make-up!

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials Part IV

Dr. Staffan Lindeberg has published a new study using the "paleolithic diet" to treat type II diabetics ( free full text ). Type ...

H1N1 Infection Control in Health Care Settings

We are increasingly receiving questions on the use of masks vs N95 respirators in health care settings. Below is a review of some major hea...

Berkeley preventing flu in kids with fun handwashing program

With flu season just around the corner — and H1N1 flu a growing concern — health officials in Berkeley, Calif., have found that teaching kid...

J2 Oh!

I've always had a thing about Morris J-types. Probably because they were once so ubiquitous as Royal Mail vans, but I think it was also ...

H1N1 Vaccine Study

The New England Journal of Medicine late yesterday published reports showing that inactivated 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines appear to produce...

Here's How to Give a Quick and Lasting Make-up

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Beauty Shops are in the Army, Too!

(Click on images for full-size versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Weekly Update on H1N1 in Maine 9/10/09

Maine CDC/DHHS Update on Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus September 10, 2009 Weekly H1N1 updates from Maine CDC will now be issued Thursday mo...

Heart failure: Heart pumps help keep the beat

If you have heart failure, a heart pump may improve your quality of life. When you have heart failure, your heart can't pump enough bloo...

Creature Feature No 6

We haven't had a Creature Feature for some time, and then I remembered this sign, recently discovered near Cold Newton in Leicestershire...

Find The Fault No 38

Pretty straightforward this morning I think. I like the 'plane and its cream and red livery, the Art Deco control tower and the row of h...

The Make-Up of the Stars

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

Flinty Acres

Flint occurs where there's chalk. And nowhere was it used to greater effect than in Norfolk, where the absence of other building stone o...

Rhyme and Reason

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: American Hairdresser, June 1946

Definition of Health Care Personnel for H1N1 Vaccine Purposes

One question we are getting quite often is, "what is the definition of health care personnel for the purposes of identifying those who ...

A terrific Hip Hop video on flu!

Oh, Yes: It's Time For A Swine Flu Rap Shared via AddThis

Pituitary Adenoma

What Is It? A pituitary adenoma is a benign tumor of the anterior pituitary gland. It is the most common pituitary tumor of the gland itse...

Celebrate Get Ready Day on Sept. 15 and spread the preparedness message

Help your communities become more prepared for pandemic flu, disasters and other public health threats by taking part in this year’s Get Rea...