Grant Holloway

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

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

Could this be a solution to the UCC staffing dilemma? Back in the late 1970s, your Back Page scribbler studied a book called “In the Shadow of Man” by Dr Jane Goodall, which detailed how chimpanzees in the wild would fashion and modify natural objects to use as tools. This was groundbreaking because, at the time, most folks thought tool-making in this sophisticated sense was something only humans got up to.

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

Could this be a solution to the UCC staffing dilemma? Back in the late 1970s, your Back Page scribbler studied a book called “In the Shadow of Man” by Dr Jane Goodall, which detailed how chimpanzees in the wild would fashion and modify natural objects to use as tools. This was groundbreaking because, at the time, most folks thought tool-making in this sophisticated sense was something only humans got up to.

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

Relax. Zoning out happens to other folks all the time as well. Do you ever walk into a room, look around vaguely then try to remember what it is you thought you wanted to do there in the first place? Or have you searched the house vainly for your glasses before eventually realising you are, in fact, already wearing them? For your ageing correspondent, this is becoming a more frequent occurrence – something his parents used to refer to as “having a senior moment”.