Grant Holloway

3 weeks ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

Nobody would be silly enough to tape their mouth closed at night, would they? When your Back Page scribbler is short of an idea or two for this column, he can always rely on the bottomless well of idiocy known as social media to provide inspiration. Today, again, we lower our bucket into those fetid waters and, voila! We’ve fished out the barking batshit bonkers practice known as mouth taping. If you’ve not heard of this idea, be warned, it’s a doozy.

3 weeks ago | oncologyrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

As if this microbial monster wasn’t bad enough already, it’s diet will make you sick. Every so often your ageing Back Page scribbler stumbles across a yarn that seems just too bad to be true. And today is one of those days, because if the findings of a new study published this week in the journal, Cell, have any credence, then our journey to hell in a handcart just gathered a disconcerting amount of unwanted momentum. It goes without saying that bacterial superbugs are very bad things.

3 weeks ago | puffnstuff.com.au | Grant Holloway

As if this microbial monster wasn’t bad enough already, it’s diet will make you sick. Every so often your ageing Back Page scribbler stumbles across a yarn that seems just too bad to be true. And today is one of those days, because if the findings of a new study published this week in the journal, Cell, have any credence, then our journey to hell in a handcart just gathered a disconcerting amount of unwanted momentum. It goes without saying that bacterial superbugs are very bad things.

1 month ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

As if this microbial monster wasn’t bad enough already, it’s diet will make you sick. Every so often your ageing Back Page scribbler stumbles across a yarn that seems just too bad to be true. And today is one of those days, because if the findings of a new study published this week in the journal, Cell, have any credence, then our journey to hell in a handcart just gathered a disconcerting amount of unwanted momentum. It goes without saying that bacterial superbugs are very bad things.

1 month ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

Professional body builders may look fit, but their cardiac health tells another story. Your Back page scribbler has never quite understood the attraction of body building. While totally accepting the proven health benefits of a moderate amount of resistance training, the desire to achieve a body shape resembling “a condom full of walnuts”* we find baffling.