Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Blinded by the white, in reply to Adam Gifford,
Then the section editor changed and he was dropped for an Iain Sharp column, which as far as I am aware never generated a single watt of illumination, apart from the glare of his whiteness (which he can;t help of course).
I gather he's a very nice man, but I very much get what you're saying. Selwyn was a firecracker.
Selwyn took a bit of a shine to me in the 90s when I had to interview him for a story once. He had a lot to say, than man. He's still with us, of course, but suffering from dementia.
Dr Walker and his wife were also very pleasant to me when I met them two or three times in the 90s. I'd formed this picture of him as being very severe, but he wasn't like that at all.
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Speaker: Blinded by the white, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Today’s Tremain ….
Edgy!
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Hard News: Fifty thousand preventable deaths, in reply to Thomas Lumley,
I hope that with competing products becoming available, the suppliers will negotiate a bit more. Gilead has licensed generic manufacture of the active ingredient of Solvaldi (sofosbuvir) in India for sale to developing countries, which suggests they may be willing to settle for charging what people will actually pay.
The emergence of "buyers club" networks in Australia, parallel-importing from India, will hopefully add a bit of urgency.
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Hard News: Fifty thousand preventable deaths, in reply to Hebe,
The cost of new livers (if so many were available, which they are not) or medical care until the end of their lives for hep C sufferers surely must exceed $80-100,000.
Oh, it does. It's radically more expensive to fund liver transplants or treat liver cancer than to provide these drugs. But that's how the system works.
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Lilith __,
Pohutukawas make good shade.
Cats are very good at finding shade.
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Sorry to despoil this thread with dross….but these lads seem to fit.
I saw that today – it's cool!
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Here's the thing. After I hopped back over to the cycleway, a car came down down that lane (to exit at Rosebank) and I realised it was OPEN ...
Oops.
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Steve Barnes,
They couldn’t afford Max Key? ;-)
LOL.
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I look some pictures last weekend too, at the family picnic-styled event for Andrew Little’s State of the Nation speech, where I’d been hired to DJ.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
is it only because the West might be attending the Olympics that has got the ‘powers that be’ on to doing something?
Possibly – but also a massive recent rise in incidence, by the looks:
The BBC is reporting that in Brazil, the number of babies born with suspected microcephaly, or abnormally small brains, has reached 4000 since October 2015, compared with only 150 in 2014. It is currently affecting one per cent of all babies born in the most affected parts of Brazil. Authorities there attribute this to an ongoing outbreak of the zika virus. A small number of babies who died had the virus in their brains.
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