I’ve just been watching an episode of Star Trek; STIs in outer space? Cor blimey luv, not there too! To quote John Cooper Clark, the bard of Beasley Street with his tongue firmly in cheek “it’s bad enough with another race, but phcuk me a monster from outer space!” (taken from his epic - ‘I […]
Filed under: Blog, Red Knob | 1 Comment »
Hope…
In the news this week - at last ’a breakthrough’ with regard to treatment for prostate cancer. Hailed in a BBC News article as ‘the most significant advance in the field for 70 years’, and cautiously applauded in other news articles, it is claimed that the drug Abiraterone, which works by blocking the hormones which cause the cancer […]
Filed under: Blog, News, Op Ed | 1 Comment »
Well, let’s take a look at the past few months, let’s be contentious and up the ante. Stealth taxes have made the populace meaner, people having twigged they now have less in their pockets. The working classes ( and dare we use the term ‘working’ in these classless times? One M. Thatcher supposedly having done […]
Filed under: Blog | No Comments »
With St Valentine’s Day fast approaching we’re in no doubt that the usual ‘timely messages’ will be rolled out by organisations involved in sexual health. After all people only have sex at Christmas, St Valentine’s Day, National Condom Week, and during their Summer holidays, or whenever else it is that the people that decide on […]
Filed under: Blog, Red Knob | No Comments »
The Science…
Danish scientists have produced new research that childless men are less likely to develop prostate cancer than men who are fathers – however, they’ve also found that the more children a father has the less likely he is to develop prostate cancer too – full story here: Fatherhood/prostate link.
An interesting question is how does […]
Filed under: Blog, News, Op Ed | No Comments »
STIs, young people, Chlamydia and teenage pregnancy - a Gordian Knot? A puzzle so complex, that it appears unsolvable? (Ancient history lesson – the Gordian Knot was an intricate, seemingly undoable knot in ancient Phyrgia; an oracle prophecised that the person who solved the puzzle of the Knot would become king of Asia. A bit […]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »