Grant Holloway

Sydney

Editor at The Medical Republic

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The warm upside of chilling memories

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

Just remembering how cold things were can speed up the metabolism. Your Back Page scribbler grew up in a cold climate. The childhood town was located at a latitude of nearly 46 degrees south and was populated primarily by settlers from Scotland who seemingly found the inclement weather a nostalgic reminder of their rainswept homeland.
Blood-scrub away those pesky polymers

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

Removing microplastics from your body is supposedly easy as … if you happen to have macro-bucks to burn. Are you worried about microplastics clogging up your blood vessels and damaging your cells? Of course you are! Who wouldn’t be? Not that anyone really has a definitive idea of what actual harm these itty-bitty bits of polymer might be doing to our innards, it can’t be good right? Luckily, some enterprising medical entrepreneurs are now offering a service that may assuage your fears.
A new twist on sperm motility

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

Superhelix flow structures help those swimmers do the locomotion. One of your Back Page correspondent’s favourite scenes from the seminal TV series Seinfeld is when the hapless character George Costanza learns his girlfriend has missed her period, possibly due to the use of faulty condoms supplied by the ever unreliable Kramer.
Podcasts can help your mental health

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

Listening to them, that is … not making yet another one. Your ageing correspondent loves a good podcast. While by no means an early adopter of the format, a gift subscription to The Rest is History podcast a year or so back converted this occasional dabbler into a full-blown addict.
The dogged pursuit of stress relief

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

Relax. Our canine friends are more than happy to help us calm down. The dog in the centre of the picture above is called Fred. His owner is a senior member of the staff at The Medical Republic, and he is quite probably the most loveable canine on the entire planet.
The dogged pursuit of stress relief

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

Relax. Our canine friends are more than happy to help us calm down. The dog in the centre of the picture above is called Fred. His owner is a senior member of the staff at The Medical Republic, and he is quite probably the most loveable canine on the entire planet.
Problem gambling and drinking go hand in glove

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

It’s an even money bet that each of these vices makes the other one worse. Your Back Page correspondent is no stranger to the joys of watching a televised sporting competition accompanied by the modest consumption of a fermented beverage.
Super-agers reveal their secrets

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

It’s a matter of attitude and engagement, according to the old folks. Your correspondent is always amused by the predictability of mainstream media when it comes to the question of ageing. Whenever some fortunate chap or lady turns 100, the question is always asked of them: “What is the secret to your long life?”The answers are usually a combination of keeping active, eating healthily and not worrying too much about things.
Now is the hour for fearless spider wranglers

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

With antivenom stocks dwindling, it’s best to catch not kill those frisky funnel-webs. We know it’s not fair, but some of God’s creatures are just easier to love than others. Puppies and kittens, for example, are consistently adorable, even when they’re peeing in your ugg boots and scratching the expensively restored G-plan coffee table. Show me a funnel-web spider, on the other hand, and I’ll show you a grown man typing “flamethrowers for sale near me” into a search engine.
Super-agers reveal their secrets

2 months ago | medicalrepublic.com.au | Grant Holloway

It’s a matter of attitude and engagement, according to the old folks. Your correspondent is always amused by the predictability of mainstream media when it comes to the question of ageing. Whenever some fortunate chap or lady turns 100, the question is always asked of them: “What is the secret to your long life?”The answers are usually a combination of keeping active, eating healthily and not worrying too much about things.