Taste Buds #10

Are you: Busy? A food lover? Always looking for some new, easy, & (somewhat) nutritious recipes? I always love finding new recipes to try out, & they score bonus points if they’re even vaguely healthy! Here are three tried & tested options that I thought I’d share with you this week: p p Whole Wheat…

Check Your Skin

Even if you don’t spend much time in the sun, your skin has likely still suffered damage over the years. Naturally this problem is exacerbated in people who do spend a significant amount of time in the sun, especially if they do not use sunscreen or take other precautions to protect their skin outdoors. Skin damage is…

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Feline Phosphorescence

It’s no longer just a cat’s eyes that glow in the dark! Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have created luminescent, genetically modified cats in an effort to learn more about AIDS. Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) causes feline AIDS, a condition in cats that produces almost identical symptoms to those of AIDS in people infected with human…

Taste Buds #9

Are you: Busy? A food lover? Always looking for some new, easy, & (somewhat) nutritious recipes? I always love finding new recipes to try out, & they score bonus points if they’re even vaguely healthy! Here are three tried & tested options that I thought I’d share with you this week:   Breakfast Burrito Bites…

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The 2011 AMWA Annual Conference Is Almost Here

This year’s AMWA Annual Conference is almost upon us, so don’t forget to register if you’re fortunate enough to be able to make it this year. p p AMWA have published this presentation on Getting The Most From The Conference when you attend. It contains lots of handy tips to consider if you’ve never attended either this conference…

Recruiter’s Tips

Inquill is currently hosting a Medical Writing Festival – you can check out the schedule and pricing for the seminars on their site. I don’t know anything about the company, so can’t give any first-hand information about it, or about the festival for that matter. But they do have some very prominent names giving seminars, so…

Taste Buds #8

Are you: Busy? A food lover? Always looking for some new, easy, & (somewhat) nutritious recipes? I always love finding new recipes to try out, & they score bonus points if they’re even vaguely healthy! Here are three tried & tested options that I thought I’d share with you this week:     Mango Oat…

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Walk N’ Roll For Ataxia (Auburn, MA)

“Ataxia” is derived from a Greek word meaning “lack of order”. Clinically, ataxia is a neurological symptom involving a lack of muscular coordination as a consequence of nervous system dysfunction. Although it can be a non-specific symptom associated with many infections, injuries or conditions, for example, ataxia also describes a group of specific degenerative disorders of…

10 Years On: The Lingering Health Effects of 9/11

The most recent landmark issue of the medical journal The Lancet focuses on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, and in particular some of the resultant health effects, both domestic and foreign.     A Decade On Researchers at Mount Sinai World Trade Center Clinical Center of Excellence and Data Center have completed the first…