Tag Archive | "Healthcare"

Absence

Friday, April 22, 2011

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Absence is a new work by two Northern Irish creators, Andy Luke and Stephen Downey, exploring the effects of living with epilepsy in a sensitive, understanding and compassionate manner. It can be a terribly disorientating disorder as the brainwaves get scrambled, leading to seizures, ‘lost’ time and a feeling of dislocation, as well as sometimes [...]

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Somersault – watching the curves

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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Remember kids, regular exercise and a balanced diet is vital for your health. And if all else fails there’s lipo. (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry and this week’s strip is co-written with Jeanette Rieger; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and [...]

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The Facts In The Case Of Dr Andrew Wakefield

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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Even as  reviews are coming in for his fascinating Psychiatric Tales (see our review here, yesterday), Darryl Cunningham isn’t resting on his laurels – he’s posted up a new, fifteen page colour strip on Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind the health scare which erroneously linked the MMR immunisation jab for children with increased risk [...]

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World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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December 1st is Worlds AIDS Day; it seems to have slipped down the media’s radar in the last few years, as indeed has the progress of the disease. Years of often terrifying awareness raising campaigns hammered the safe sex message into one generation (even the comics did their part, who remembers DC’s use of John [...]

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Ed Brubaker Wants You Dead

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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No, not a writer having a really bad day – this is the latest in a host of charity events to raise money for operations needed to save veteran writer John Ostrander’s sight. Ostrander suffers from Glaucoma and, like so many US comic professionals, doesn’t have the necessary medical insurance cover to meet the costs [...]

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