We are starting to hear about some of the side effects and physical problems caused by the high potency drugs being used to treat SARS, and the illness itself.
Recovering Sars patients in Hong Kong have suffered from hallucinations, manic behaviour, rapid mood swings and memory loss after being treated with large doses of steroids.
Many are [...]

One of the issues that will be brought to the table next week in the G-8 summit is global health. It doesn’t make good TV coverage, the victories are small, and it is a war fought by every generation.
The metaphor of war, used by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan when he issued a call to global [...]

While Jordon Cooper moves his blog over to a new platform and sort of takes a break, Mark Morris has reappeared to help keep a friends blog going.
Lee Ann Millinger responds to FutureMargins blogging rant with with some positive and realistic reasons why we get to read her work. (29.05.03)
The Upward Way Press certainly didn’t [...]

Head over to the picture gallery of bloggers at Cre8d.
Rachel asks if you can you put a name to the faces.
What a great idea, I didn’t know most of the faces, but I know their blogs.
What an interesting snapshot of the god-blogs.
Mostly young, male, white.
Does that mean men are more comfortable in this [...]

Oh boy, am I embarrassed.
I just got scammed by an virus alert that is a hoax.
I sent out a ‘fix’ to everyone in my blog email address book.
I’ve had real viruses, but this is a first.
I did a quick check at Symantec and didn’t see it.
Within a minute or two, bloggers were back to [...]

The first email I ever received as a blogger came from someone name Rachel in New Zealand. The warm and encouraging email meant more to me than I’ve been able to articulate adequately.
Our paths would cross again, and we would find ourselves working together, growing together, and going through some tough and painful stuff [...]

Toronto is facing another local transmission outbreak of SARS, with 8 probable new cases and 26 suspected ones. 820 Torontonians are under quarantine.
One cluster of 5 cases is associated with St John’s Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. The second cluster of 26 cases, including 10 health care workers, is associated with North York General Hospital. One [...]

Canadian medical officials have confirmed one of four possible cases of SARS in Toronto. The patients range in age from 39 to 66. One returned from at trip to Hong Kong and Southern China April 22nd. While in the local hospital yesterday, SARS information was posted everywhere, charting the course and decline of the disease [...]