http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/21/christian-gps-and-the-morning-after-pill-much-needed-clarification/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/21/christian-gps-and-the-morning-after-pill-much-needed-clarification/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 02:00:03 +0000 Dr Sima Barmania http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34955 Doctors are allowed to have personal beliefs, just as long as these beliefs do not interfere with the rights of the patient and service provision. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/21/christian-gps-and-the-morning-after-pill-much-needed-clarification/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/justin-webb-on-the-medical-advances-in-heart-disease/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/justin-webb-on-the-medical-advances-in-heart-disease/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 14:26:54 +0000 Justin Webb http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=35027 BBC journalist Justin Webb talks about his experiences of the advances in preventing heart attacks and his narrow escape.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/justin-webb-on-the-medical-advances-in-heart-disease/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/dementia-awareness-week-should-we-keep-an-open-mind-to-spiritual-solutions/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/dementia-awareness-week-should-we-keep-an-open-mind-to-spiritual-solutions/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:03 +0000 Tony Lobl http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=35017 Nobel Peace prize winner Albert Schweitzer once quipped: “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory”. A bad memory? Well, who doesn’t have a skeleton or three in the closet they’d rather forget!]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/dementia-awareness-week-should-we-keep-an-open-mind-to-spiritual-solutions/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/hearing-loss-an-invisible-impairment-and-a-preventable-disability/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/hearing-loss-an-invisible-impairment-and-a-preventable-disability/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:18 +0000 Mike Davies http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=35003 Many years ago, I lost nearly all my upper frequency hearing as a result of military action. What prompted me to get my hearing tested was Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony. One evening, I started playing the record, and remarked to my wife that the LP was dirty, or the needle needed to be changed, because I couldn’t hear the strings or woodwinds. My wife said that the sound quality was fine, and I realised that the recent explosions were to blame.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/20/hearing-loss-an-invisible-impairment-and-a-preventable-disability/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/10/secondary-breast-cancer-good-news-but-feeling-blue/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/10/secondary-breast-cancer-good-news-but-feeling-blue/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 04:00:24 +0000 Ismena Clout http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34825 I seem to be in a never ending storm of feeling blue, tired, run down, fed up, lonely and sad and I'm having a tough time finding the sunshine again.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/10/secondary-breast-cancer-good-news-but-feeling-blue/feed/ 9 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/life-with-rett-syndrome-how-other-people-view-us/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/life-with-rett-syndrome-how-other-people-view-us/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:33:30 +0000 Beth Johnsson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34274 I was planning lessons for a year 7 class today, about short story writing and how to create a three dimensional character. One of the ways we learn about a character, I teach them, is through what other characters think, say and feel about them. It occurred to me that this is perhaps at odds with the rather modern concept that we should worry less about what others think and instead be brave and confident in ourselves.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/life-with-rett-syndrome-how-other-people-view-us/feed/ 14 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/secondary-breast-cancer-the-workcancer-balance/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/secondary-breast-cancer-the-workcancer-balance/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:15:58 +0000 Ismena Clout http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34272 Life hasn’t quite worked out how I expected it to and I do have a tendency to walk the harder path (i.e. drop out of uni, then have to work up the career ladder from the bottom) but I didn’t plan to walk a path on the edge of a cliff, with loose boulders that could fall away at any time.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/secondary-breast-cancer-the-workcancer-balance/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/03/life-with-rett-syndrome-i-am-still-searching-and-i-wont-stop/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/03/life-with-rett-syndrome-i-am-still-searching-and-i-wont-stop/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:39:24 +0000 Beth Johnsson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33817 I rarely remember my dreams. I suspect this is because they are rarely unusual or noteworthy enough to hold on to, too often revolving around the pile of marking or the imminent Ofsted inspection to warrant using precious memory space!]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/03/life-with-rett-syndrome-i-am-still-searching-and-i-wont-stop/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/25/life-with-rett-syndrome-it-is-so-much-more-than-the-facts-the-stats-and-the-science/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/25/life-with-rett-syndrome-it-is-so-much-more-than-the-facts-the-stats-and-the-science/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:49:15 +0000 Beth Johnsson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33605 I never expect anyone to know what Rett Syndrome is. In the three years since Hannah was diagnosed, only twice has someone responded with ‘ yes, I've heard of that', and both times it was because they had seen a documentary about Coleen Rooney's sister. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/25/life-with-rett-syndrome-it-is-so-much-more-than-the-facts-the-stats-and-the-science/feed/ 6 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/24/world-tuberculosis-day-2013-the-second-biggest-global-killer/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/24/world-tuberculosis-day-2013-the-second-biggest-global-killer/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:00:11 +0000 Freddie Nathan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33594 Ask most people what the second biggest global pathogen killer is after HIV/AIDS and few will know. The answer is tuberculosis. Nine million people a year contract the airborne bug while a further 1.4 million die from it. Meanwhile, one quarter of HIV/AIDS fatalities actually die from TB.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/24/world-tuberculosis-day-2013-the-second-biggest-global-killer/feed/ 17 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/22/secondary-breast-cancer-a-place-to-die/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/22/secondary-breast-cancer-a-place-to-die/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:44:23 +0000 Ismena Clout http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33585 I am the sort of person that overthinks things in my life, they go round and round in my head till they either fizzle away or become a huge issue. Blogging has become one way for me to offload those thoughts and help me move on. Occasionally though, I do something without thinking about it and it's only afterwards that it hits me. This happened the other day.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/22/secondary-breast-cancer-a-place-to-die/feed/ 11 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/20/life-with-rett-syndrome-theres-no-such-thing-as-just-a-cold/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/20/life-with-rett-syndrome-theres-no-such-thing-as-just-a-cold/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:17:06 +0000 Beth Johnsson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33502 The name of your child’s school on the screen of your vibrating phone makes any parent nervous. It's hard not to imagine the worst, even if only for a nano second.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/20/life-with-rett-syndrome-theres-no-such-thing-as-just-a-cold/feed/ 7