Pictured at the IHCA AGM and Annual Conference, which took place on 9 October, are (L to R): Prof Rob Landers, IHCA Vice President; Prof Alan Irvine, IHCA President; Mr Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health; and Dr Gabrielle Colleran, IHCA Vice President
Decades ago, during an idyllic camping trip to Finland and Norway, my wife and I lost a purse. At Tromsø Police Station a smiling officer transcribed our statement into Norwegian; I signed it… then he guffawed: “Hjör! Hjör! Hjör!” We stared at him. “You’ve just sold me your house!” he exclaimed. Our laughter erupted, mine…
It’s now over 10 years ago when restaurants, reacting to the global financial crisis, started to pretend that slow-cooked pork belly is posh. And despite its subsequent ubiquity, it’s still pretty cheap. Unfashionable cuts of meat, like pork belly, which is otherwise destined to be turned into streaky bacon, are the saviours of restaurants that…
If ever there was a time to put on a baseball cap and set your Spotify to Garth Brooks songs, driving the Ford Ranger Thunder is just that occasion. The Ranger Thunder also has the honour of being the first pickup truck tested for the intrepid readers of the Medical Independent. If you like fishing,…
Writing in the journal Cell (2014, 157: 267–271), biologist Robert Weinberg “lamented that cancer research was held in ‘ill-disguised contempt’ and that “one should never, ever confuse cancer research with science!’”. This far-from-ringing endorsement of the lack of progress in what has been called “the last great medical mystery” is cited in Dr Jason Fung’s…
This issue’s offering compiles for you a round-up of some of the more unusual research and strange events that have transpired in recent weeks. Our world is only partially recognisable from what it was like 18 months ago, but strangeness remains a constant. We begin with research that was first published in the Journal of…
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