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Are things going to change for the better for customers after the recent retail bookstore collapse in Australia ?

The publishing industry doesn’t seem to understand that they need a new business model. Digital books are the future. Independent publishing via on-line sites will be the model. Even big on-line publishers such as Amazon don’t get it. They are charging prices for digital books comparable to paper editions. What are their costs to sell […]

World Christian Doctors Network Conference in Brisbane

The conference was held from June 11-12, and I am more than a little bit disgusted by the mission statement of these cretins : WCDN is an Interdenominational organisation composed of Christian Medical Professionals of the World. WCDN wants to motivate the Christian Medical Professionals to reflect the love of Jesus Christ and to be […]

What’s going on, Teachers Health Fund ?

A reader has sent me a copy of some pages from a magazine called “Health Matters“, a quarterly published by Australia’s biggest private health insurance fund for teachers, Teachers Health, that in its latest edition features “an introduction to alternative therapies“. Now, my most charitable interpretation of those pages is that they have some rogue […]

Why smokers have less hunger than non-smokers

Some people actually use smoking to control their weight. Others hesitate to quit smoking because they fear the weight gain that often accompanies smoking cessation. Now researchers from Yale and Baylor have discovered a mechanism by which nicotine suppresses hunger in the brain. What happens is that nicotine influences the melanocortin system in the hypothalamus, […]