Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

Check this out: Jabs don't work on big-bummed girls

Injections may not work on some people because their bottoms are too big, researchers have said.

Many vaccines and other medications are administered by a jab in the rear, but doctors have found that needles cannot penetrate the excess bottom fat of many patients, particularly women. To be effective, the drug has to be injected into the underlying muscle.

Boy, those British headline-writers aren't subtle, are they?

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Check this out! Over at Furthermore on Wired.com, they point out that some recent studies are showing a link between schizophrenia and a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which is commonly found in cats.

They identified 63 people who developed schizophrenia and compared them with 123 similar "controls" without schizophrenia. The researchers tested stored blood samples, obtained from the mothers while they were pregnant, for Toxoplasma antibodies. Antibody levels were classified as negative, moderate, or high.

A high Toxoplasma antibody level, indicating heavy infection around the time of pregnancy, more than doubled the likelihood of schizophrenia in the adult offspring.

So a connection between cats and insanity? Sounds like a no-brainer to me.

P.S. To all cat-lovers, I like cats too. I'm just not surprised to learn that they make people crazy.

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