h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(Make that plural - are there a lot of doctors in the house?) Following a conversation recently on various anti-malarial drugs, I think we need something on a disease that killed two million people last year. As a diabetic, I think I might have managed to avoid diabetes if I had known that having big babies and being overweight were predisposing factors. We don't seem to have anything on AIDS either.

I agree we need more medical stuff. Possibly a First Aid guide and possibly a small initial medical dictionary of common illnesses.

Pegasus - http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U54754 is doing a project on women's health, including pregnancy, so that should fill the gap a bit. That can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A534944, maybe you could ask her to include a bit about diabetes in pregnancy.

There is something in the Workshop on AIDS / HIV

I'm trying to put together a uni project on skin problems http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A528167 I could really use some help if there's anyone willing?

I did an entry on HIV/AIDS, but I am not sure what happened to that...
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can do a entry on malaria, if anyone wants me to, I have the matterial already, nas I have studyed a lot about the immunology of it, but I am a bit busy now, looking at transplant rejection and other stuff for my Uni,

There was an entry on scoliosis being worked on (the entry that helped me discover that I had scoliosis myself) but the author removed it. We need one on that

I didn't think you could remove anything you had written once it was in the guide, obviously you can

You can delete journal entries, and guide entries, but nothing in conversations. Any threads on journal or guide entries that people have replied to will still be visible in their conversation lists though.

A bit late mow maybe, but harking back to the topic of medical orientated entries, there really ought to be an equivalent of the womens health uni project focussing of mens health - particularly on testicular cancer.

This is great news, I found something that someone suggested has been written. Although some of them seem to have been written before this conversation was started.

A314920
Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

A75683
Diabetes - a Personal Perspective

A817968
AIDS HIV - Controversy

A819966
AIDS HIV - the Disease, Transmission, Treatment and Tests

A810262
AIDS HIV - General Information

A818002
AIDS HIV - Global Epidemiologic Statistics

hey all, i have ranauds syndrome and i wanderd if i should put up an entry about it, theres quite alot of people who have it and some people who dont even no that they have it, a gud idea?

Hognogin

Yeah, do that. I'll write some stuff about Raynaud's-linked diseases if I get some time.

Bravo and good point!
As a Diabetic myself (type 1 though, which your post would indicate as not being the type you have?) I intend to write an entry - i've been involved with various Diabetes research groups and im sure i can come up with something - obviously ill check whats already available on the guide before i do!

I think that diseases for someone not in the medical proffession often create little interest, and if you have it/are directly involved in it it can be confronting or just plain boring to have to do a report on it!
But i think we should all try - for the sake of knowledge and the guide, eh?

I have kidney disease and am undergoing regular dialysis. Would an Entry from this perspective be of interest?

I'm completing an entry on the Scopes Trial at present but, once that's out of the way, I could tackle this.