Group photo from Irish Society of Occupational Medicine Spring Conference. Delegates outside Hollister Medical Products factory, Ballina.

Thirty-five-year-old Sarah Colwill puts the startling change down to an extremely rare medical condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). Other stories of Foreign Accent Syndrome:

“Halifax Home Insurance estimated that £400m (€445m) worth of damage was caused last year by people who lack genetically pre-determined Do-It-Yourself ability.”

This shift in the toads’ behaviour coincided with disruptions in the ionosphere, the uppermost electromagnetic layer of the earth’s atmosphere, which were detected using very low frequency (VLF) radio sounding.

The Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association will hold a public meeting on Saturday, April 17 at Trinity College Dublin, Ui Chadhain Lecture Theatre, Arts Building. At noon, Olle Johannson, Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institute will discuss the heath hazards of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. wireless technologies and mobile phones). Download the full programme.

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For years, men who otherwise consider themselves tough have been reduced to anguished wimps by the very slightest of colds. Men have, for years, referred to this condition as the flu. Women, who are inexplicably capable of performing almost normally with colds and flus, have cruelly renamed this cold that feels to men like flu: [...]

From the Laryngospasms: Do you have an idea for a medical parody? It could be worth $500 if it is selected for use by the Spasms! The author of a song chosen for use will receive $500, free signed copies of all of our albums, and full credit for the song if it is recorded. [...]