Well, what a miserable month for weather February’s been! With snow blizzards causing chaos for drivers across the country, and the apparent monsoon season we’ve seen over the past week or so, we at Aurora are certainly looking forward to the arrival of Spring. At least we had an excuse to indulge in a pancake [...]
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I re-discovered sleep during the half term holidays, as the rotters were handed over to their grandparents during a hostage transfer at a Little Chef service station. They got to enjoy a week in the country with their much-loved grandparents and we got a week off from being parents; free to go out and sleep [...]
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As someone who often resorts to the easy, timesaving and gratifying (if unhealthy) breakfast solution of the local cafe fried bacon and egg sandwich, I have decided to justify this little vice by turning it into a scientific study designed to improve public welfare. If, at the very least, I make myself sick of this [...]
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A man I’ve never met before walks into a bar and says to me, “I bet I can guess when your birthday is.” Now I’m not much of a gambler, but bearing in mind he’s only got a 1 in 365 chance of getting it right, I might wager £10 that he can’t do it. [...]
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Happy belated new decade! While the top 20 had a Christmas break, our little elves were still busy reading all the health news and analysing the data, so here is the first top 20 analysis of the year. If you want to view the full newsletter, click here.
The chart for January has seen some interesting [...]
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As usual for this time of year, I am trying to lose weight. I don’t like to call it a New Year’s resolution but something about a new year makes me want to start working on my new, healthier lifestyle. I’ll admit I have found it difficult this month. My stomach might feel empty but [...]
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The response to the Help Haiti appeal has been a truly global phenomenon – the help, money and support for the stricken country has flooded in from all around the world. Nobody could fail to be moved by the media images including stories of hope and human endurance which have flashed onto our television screens [...]
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2010 starts with global growth: GLOBALHealthPR expands Eurasia presence
Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Handbaglady.
Further to last year’s new additions, Aurora’s international network, GLOBALHealthPR, the largest independent public relations organisation dedicated exclusively to health and medical communications worldwide, has announced a further expansion, this time in Eurasia by welcoming Optimum Brand in Turkey (www.optimumbrand.com) and Mediamedic Communications (www.mediamedichealth.com) in India.
With both Optimum Brand and Mediamedic, GLOBALHealthPR amplifies its level [...]
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As a healthcare communicator and tireless health news media monitor, I have developed a thick skin in response to some health, medical, pharma and science reporting, and an ability to cancel out Sunday’s “coffee gives you cancer” story with Monday’s “coffee cures your cancer” story, happily believing, on Tuesday, that coffee and cancer have no [...]
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In Charles Dickens’s second novel his plucky young orphan hero Oliver Twist tells the workhouse Master, bowl in hand, that he wants “some more”. The incredulous Master exclaims “What?” and Oliver repeats his opener: “Please sir, I want some more”. As we all know from the story, all hell breaks loose and poor Oliver ends [...]
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Where there is smoke there is desire
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Aurora is turning green...
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World Cup fever begins in Camden
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Cut people some slack *please*
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Bacon on test
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Ed Purkis: Thanks for following up your comment with this pos...
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Andrew Spong: It's 'hick some you', people! HICK. SOME. YOU! ...
