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		<title>And now for something completely different</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit it I&#8217;m self obsessed (well I&#8217;m writing this aren&#8217;t I?) and I look at where people have clicked through to get to my blog. I had a bit of a shock yesterday when I saw someone had categorised me in their gone but not forgotten pile&#8230; Looking back I did blog a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=310&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression, fad or fact?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually read the Daily Mail&#8217;s website but my attention was brought to this article by Janet Street Porter: Depression-Its-just-new-trendy-illness Which starts: There&#8217;s a big black cloud hanging over parts of the UK, and it&#8217;s not going away. Not volcanic ash &#8211; but depression. This relatively new ailment appeared on my radar a couple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=302&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it ethical to lie to patients?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ask this question because a number of people have spoken to me about SPECAL care (Specialised early care in alzheimer&#8217;s&#8230; erm&#8230; care- it&#8217;s like PIN number). Back in August 2008 there was this article in the Guardian by media psychologist Oliver James. Author of this book: Contented Dementia, which discusses SPECAL and he thinks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=285&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide isn&#8217;t painless</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the punning title, I know Painless was the name of the dentist in M.A.S.H. but I couldn&#8217;t resist. I was just pondering suicide and euthanasia, this was triggered by world suicide prevention day and the lack of coverage in the media. Now suicide is a bad thing isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=279&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the spinal trap resurected</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/beware-the-spinal-trap-resurected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many other bloggers have done I am reposting a version of the Simon Singh article that has got the blogosphere in a frenzy of debunking Chiropractic. This is the version which is altered slightly from the original. The original is out there if you search. Here you go: Beware the Spinal Trap by Simon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=278&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiropractic for mental health, Bogus*? Updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[BPSDB] *Deliberate deception not implied In light of other bloggers looking at chiropractic treatment I thought I&#8217;d have a look from my perspective. According to the BCA chiropractic can be used to treat many conditions beyond back pain but does not appear to mention mental health symptoms specifically. I thought I would find out if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=268&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m starting to think they do it on purpose</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/im-starting-to-think-they-do-it-on-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 21:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again, the BBC website has some more marvellous reporting of research. This time the article is : Trial drugs &#8220;reverse&#8221; Alzheimer&#8217;s O rly&#8230; This is the BBC story, note the headline, yes that really does say Trial drugs &#8220;reverse&#8221; Alzheimer&#8217;s But if you read further than the headline it says: In mice, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=265&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC  being accurate again</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/the-bbc-being-accurate-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t been terribly active in blogging recently but this story on the BBC website raised an eyebrow. The story in question is about a crop of daffodils being grown in Wales as a source of Galantamine crystals. For the uninitiated, Galantamine is an Acetlycholinesterase inhibitor, one of the medications used in Alzheimer&#8217;s, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=252&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The least worst option</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/the-least-worst-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was triggered by a comment about bpsd (behavioural problems and symptoms in dementia) made by The Shrink author of the Lake Cocytus blog (follow the link and read it is a great insight into life as a consultant psychiatrist). Much of what The Shrink writes echoes with me as I have had eerily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=239&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When MMR attacks (or LBC and Jeni Barnett, what were you thinking?)</title>
		<link>http://soveda.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/when-mmr-attacks-or-lbc-and-jeni-barnett-what-were-you-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a very quick post, Ben Goldacre has been threatened by LBC&#8217;s lawyers fro infringement of copyright. The copyright in question is to do with an episode of Jeni Barnett&#8217;s show which was frighteningly ill informed and further scare mongering about MMR. As I&#8217;ve blogged previously, the data about MMR does not show an association [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soveda.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4776290&amp;post=238&amp;subd=soveda&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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