The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued an advisory over concerns someone with the measles may have transmitted the virus to other individuals. The linked article lists areas and times of possible exposure, and the steps you can take if you feel you are at risk ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star just posted an article titled Airline pilot has nowhere to escape from wireless radiation.*Facepalm ( Read more... )

The forecast for this long weekend here in London is glorious; clear skies and summery temperatures for virtually the whole weekend, with the only threat of rain coming on Monday. So once again it's time to lay some cunning plans.

( Long weekend itinerary is long, for weekend )

A report to city council recommends that the London (Ontario) city continue fluoridating the water supply after multiple representations to the city from various anti-fluoride activist groups. The report strongly recommends following expert advice from "local, provincial, federal, and international public health agencies" over the advice of the ( Read more... )

Health Canada has issued a recall of "dietary supplement" MMS for containing high levels of sodium chlorite. Sodium chlorite is normally used as a disinfectant or veterinary germicide. If "Miracle Mineral Solution" is taken as directed, consumers will exceed the maximum safe dose of the substance, risking kidney failure among other ills. Health ( Read more... )

I woke up at roughly my usual time this morning feeling a bit stuffy and achey again, so I decided to get more rest given that it's Sunday and I have no plans. So I took a night-time cold and flu pill and went back to bed ( Read more... )

I think today was too early to try to go back to work; I didn't get nearly as much accomplished as I usually would (though, in my defense, I did have a lot of interruptions and I just mentally wasn't able to shift gears too quickly) and now I find myself utterly exhausted (and sweaty!) after bringing home one (1) bag of groceries ( Read more... )

Just emailed work that I'll be missing today, too, dammit.

Last night I was actually starting to feel better, but woke up this morning with the fever and light-headedness back, plus my ears ringing from sinus drainage and my throat's awful. (Yeah, I get that. It's very annoying, but better than the sinuses not draining, which I've had before too ( Read more... )

So I'm home today instead of the office... because it feels like I'm on a ship in swells with too much slack in the anchor chain, plus hot-and-cold running aches and my face feels like it's drooping down below my chin or something ( Read more... )

If this was real it'd be a staggering breach of medical privacy. (And up here in the Great White North it'd be torches and pitchforks time... as evidenced by much lesser breaches in the past.)

But it's not; it's just Bruce Wayne's health chart as created by Russell Saunders. Some will get a bit lost in the medical jargon; others may miss the ( Read more... )