Hi, I care for my mum who has Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Having children and a full time job I struggled to remind mum at the right times every day to…
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Former member of MJA Veronica Rose died peacefully on December 4, 2015. Veronica trained as a nurse in 1950 and continued working until 2002. She was an active member of the…
In the unlikely event that any MJA member might be tempted to write about a self-styled health expert by the name of Anna Victoria Rodgers, aka Miss Eco Glam, let…
For those of you who missed the fun, here’s a taste of Twitter’s take on the MJA Summer Awards. Don’t forget, you’ll need to sign in to Twitter.
The Winnower — an open access online science publishing platform founded by American researcher and medical writer Joshua Nicholson — has accused the publishing giant Elsevier of selling articles which the authors have funded themselves to ensure…
After receiving an email from the ALCS warning that some categories of work would no longer qualify for payments I wasn’t expecting anything from this year’s distribution — but was…
“It’s not a ballet pointe, it’s not a closed ankle, it’s an open ankle”. As I repeated this mantra to myself I wondered how many Spanish women spent their holidays…
You have to be of a certain age to appreciate the impact of Andrew Wakefield’s now roundly discredited claim that the MMR vaccine caused autism. Health and medical journalists are…
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