'Disease' Category
Are DIY health testing kits really a good idea?
If The Nurse was freed from prison, she could walk into any chemist and pick up a plethora of health testing kits.
For a few quid she could examine her cholesterol level, blood pressure and blood sugar, test for allergies and find out whether she’d caught any number of lurid STDs.
For a few quid more she could have her DNA tested to see [...]Swine Flu Panic Unnecessary – Just Use a Hanky
So Egypt has begun mass slaughter of pigs and Ghana has banned the import of pork as a precaution against swine flu. Both are pointless as the swine flu virus is transmitted human to human and cannot be caught from pork meat. I think they just don’t like pigs.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has now [...]Everybody Off Sick
I haven’t written anything for the ABS blog for some time, but I’m at home, off sick, coughing globs of phlegm all over my keyboard, nursing a nasty cold, or flu, or worse…
I just called in sick, which is always a bit stressful. I find myself exaggerating my symptoms while talking to some girl in [...]Water Borne Infections Can Withstand Chemical Treatments
Water borne infections are no joke. I just came across this blog post: 5 Diseases You Can Catch in a Swimming Pool or Hot Tub and it reminded me of the time my wife contracted hot tub folliculitis.
We had been holidaying with friends in Spain where we had the use of a communal swimming [...]
