While I appreciate the idea behind the new site iTherapy it does have a few issues with actual human interaction, for example take this exchange between me and the bot:
Human: I knows eh!
TARA at iTherapy.com: Are you Canadian? I am learning more about you all the time.: said knows.
Human: I already said I wasn’t [...]
Archive for the ‘Public Health’ Category
iTherapy is easily iConfused
Posted in Public Health, WTF on April 12, 2008 | 10 Comments »
One step forwards and two steps back
Posted in HIV, Public Health, Science on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it seems that Bush and company have decided that they are no longer forcing much of their AIDs money to go into abstinence only campaigns. Instead they now require ‘justification’ if less than 50% of money doesn’t go into abstinence or faithfulness campaigns, which may sound reasonable but it will depend in my view [...]
All I can do is sigh
Posted in Public Health, WTF on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It seems that one of our hospitals once again makes a grievous mistake and everyday New Zealanders pay the price for it:
Dr Roman Hasil botched eight of 32 32 tubal ligations (sterilisation procedures), resulting in six pregnancies.
In his report Commissioner Ron Paterson censures the doctor and the DHB for “serious failings in the care of [...]
Nature and HIV pessimism
Posted in HIV, Public Health, Science on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This news article in Nature, entitled, HIV can ‘never be cured’ caught my interest pretty much immediately as it describes some interesting new research on the HIV virus and for its unusually pessimistic title. For one thing, it’s true that HIV is a very tricky virus to get rid of because it attacks the immune [...]
Herceptin court case
Posted in Public Health on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From what I understand of Herceptin, I can’t quite understand why we don’t fund a full (one year) course of the drug. Neither can a group of women with breast cancer, who are taking New Zealands drug funding agency Pharmac to court to find out and have had a small win:
Eight breast cancer survivors have [...]
Farm animal cannibalism (Repost)
Posted in Farming, Public Health, Science on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
[This is a repost from my previous blog that's semi-relevant to another topic I'm going to bring up in the near future on this blog. It's also a cheap way of getting postcount++ while I don't have the time to make a totally new post. Enjoy!]
Cannibalism is one of those practices that, at least as [...]
Nature and the Badger culling debate
Posted in Animal Welfare, Farming, Mycobacterium bovis, Public Health, Science on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although I have been in the land of the blogging dead for some time now, I’ve still been following and taking a great amount of interest in the British Governments response to the bovine tuberculosis epidemic in England. My previous posts and some background can be found on my old blog (Part I, Part II, [...]
