"I like Demis Roussos, Ange likes Demis Roussos, Tone likes Demis Roussos and Sue would like to hear Demis Roussos."

People in the public eye are still people. In fact, we don't have the right to expect to be told that she is ill, or the nature of that illness. That we know she has been ill/had cancer means we already know more than we have a right to expect.

Sorry -strong disagree. The right to medical privacy means nothing if you are only going to apply it selectively. A person might choose to be a 'beacon of hope', but it is not right to expect them to. Why should she have to be a beacon of hope and not some other person with cancer?

You don't need to memorise Krebs' cycle - only the substrates and enzymes.

I once upset my brother by using a bottle of Laphroaig that he gave me to make christmas cakes. They were tremendous, though. I WOULD DO IT AGAIN!

Yes! When we're celebrating we go and press our noses against the windows

Ah but D Dimer is an excellent way to find out if the haematology laboratory is open.

We have electricity AND indoor plumbing these days, you know!

kidney. Oxalate crystals in tubules. Poisoned?

Tar Wars

I am deeply suspicious that all of the people in the leaflet look so happy. Still, it all looks very clean. I suppose that's a bonus - if you are going to get your colon out in front of strangers, you don't want it to get covered in cat hair.

Do raccoons get cryptosporidiosis? It looks as though this one has!

Well, thanks for the spoiler.

In a sense he is right - if you have a 100% healthy population, prevention is better than cure.

But if you have a population with chronic diseases (and you always will!), then the best way to reduce medication expenditure is to reduce the cost of the medications.

Cadaverine