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• Some Alzheimer genes identified

  By tigtog on 2009-09-07 • ( 2 )

  It’s 16 years since the last genetic identification of Alzheimer’s factors. This is potentially huge, as at least 1 in 4 cases of Alzheimers are known to have a strong genetic component, and it has long been suspected that other gene clusters are very important factors in the development of the disease.

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 6, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-06

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. How much would you spend to persecute 0.18% of the population? – “Gary Randall is fixated… Read More ›

• Open Father’s Day thread

  By tigtog on 2009-09-06 • ( 11 )

  How did your father help or hinder your feminist consciousness developing as you were growing up? Do they accept your feminist convictions now?

• New Hoyden authors! and new Down Under Feminist Carnival!

  By tigtog on 2009-09-06 • ( 5 )

  Not all of our new authors will be posting here often, seeing as some have theses and dissertations that they are (meant to be) prioritising in their writing time. We eagerly await their forays into bloggerly procrastination here whenever the mood strikes them.

• Quick Hit: HealthBase Cures All Ills

  By Wildly Parenthetical on 2009-09-05 • ( 34 )

  Especially if your ills include a distinct lack of laughter at the hilarious outcomes of semantic search engines. HealthBase was recently unveiled by NetBase, and it is designed to give you a nice broad sense of current medical knowledge about… Read More ›

• Horrendous abuse of PWD in NSW State hospital

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-05 • ( 9 )

  Concord Hospital in Sydney has admitted that they did neglect an elderly, ill man, and the New South Wales government is once again feeling the heat over healthcare standards. Cut with WARNING, for horrific negligence-inflicted injury to a person with… Read More ›

• Welcome to the new Hoyden habitat

  By tigtog on 2009-09-05 • ( 10 )

  Enjoy! I did originally have a new look ready to go, but I accidentally overwrote those files, didn’t I? It will appear soon though.

• Batten down the hatches, database port ahead

  By tigtog on 2009-09-05 • ( 6 )

  OK, the lovely and talented Mary is helping me port the Hoyden database to a new net home. It will have a new domain name and everything! But I need to close off commenting now in order to make that… Read More ›

• How things have changed

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-05 • ( 4 )

  I’ve been poking trhough William Heberden’s Commentaries on The History and Cure of Diseases (1802). Chapter 62, Menstrua, includes the following: “The pains, which several women experience during some part of the menstrual flux, are safely mitigated with opium; and… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-05 • ( 18 )

  This African spotted-necked otter, Lutra maculicollis, is from a Zoo and Aquarium Visitor article about the upcoming Monterey Aquarium otter activity weekend. The name of the weekend? Otter Days! Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything… Read More ›

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