Archive for December, 2009
A Christmas Whine
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by phaedrus.
As a healthcare communicator and tireless health news media monitor, I have developed a thick skin in response to some health, medical, pharma and science reporting, and an ability to cancel out Sunday’s “coffee gives you cancer” story with Monday’s “coffee cures your cancer” story, happily believing, on Tuesday, that coffee and cancer have no [...]
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Please sir, I want some more
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by neilcrump.
In Charles Dickens’s second novel his plucky young orphan hero Oliver Twist tells the workhouse Master, bowl in hand, that he wants “some more”. The incredulous Master exclaims “What?” and Oliver repeats his opener: “Please sir, I want some more”. As we all know from the story, all hell breaks loose and poor Oliver ends [...]
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Christmas spirit
Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by PR Mum.
The rotters are full of Christmas spirit. Letters to Father Christmas have been sent and the postie’s (dad’s) best Arsenal socks set aside for their stockings. Their much loved dwarf fibre optic Christmas tree has been resurrected from the depths of the garden shed and drowned in lights and decorations. Today was the big rotters [...]
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The Brain Game
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by NW1er.
Writing this month’s Aurora top 20 got me thinking about mental health issues and how this is managed in the UK. A range of opinions and challenges exist in this area, making it a complicated one for all involved. Below I explore the topic in some more depth. Prevalence and approach In the year 2000 [...]
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Aurora top 20 – November 2009
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by phaedrus.
Winter is upon us! The cold nights are drawing in, the supermarket shelves are stocked with novelty chocolates, the over-eager are dishing out mince pies and Aurora is turning its attention to the final top 20 analysis of 2009. A month of movers and shakers, November saw nine re-entries punch into the chart. The year [...]
