There’s a truly eclectic selection of topics in this week’s Monday Sidebar.
To start of with, what do you think about this – a ‘chastity belt’ lingerie fitted with GPS tracking system’. Lingerie maker Lucia Lorio of Brazil says it’s designed for ‘modern, techno-savvy woman’. But feminist are calling it a modern-day slaver and are urging women to boycott the GPS underwear
Meanwhile, Swedish health authorities are causing controversy with their decision to supply free prosthetic penises that are not fully functional to transsexual men. Seems these free prosthetic penises [are] strictly flaccid a situation that some call ridiculous. But the …read more

No candy. No sodas. And no birth control. – it will be interesting to see if this unconventional business plan will work for the Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy, a new drug store at a Virginia strip mall. It just one of at least seven pharmacies across America that is refusing to sell contraceptives of any kind as a matter of faith, even if a person has a prescription.
Singing a Song of Sanitation – When Feliciano Dos Santos, a leading South African musician, is not touring Europe with his band Massukos,  he can be found wandering Mozambique’s highland villages, singing about …read more

Today’s Monday Sidebar’s might be sparse but it’s not dull…
Bluegrass and Brain Surgery – Mostly, surgeons prefer patients to be unconscious during surgery, but in this case, they not only wanted to keep their patient awake but they also wanted him to play the banjo. Why? Because they were trying to determine what region of the brain was causing the patient to suffer tremors. See for yourself here.
Dead Man Walking Bathing – He’s been dead since 1924, but every year, he has a bath. Can you guess who? No. Then head over to Morbid Anatomy for the answer. And if …read more

Ready for some more interesting, fascinating, unusual, strange, and even bizarre news…
Pay patients to go to the doctor? – in England, Health Service Managers are looking at ways to get people in unhealthy people in the lower social economic rankings to visit the doctor. The thinking is that if you can get people to the doctor earlier, before chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease set in, the government health system would save money. It makes sort of makes sense. But the idea is getting flack from politicans and medical experts alike who say that the government shouldn’t be …read more

The Sunday Sidebar is back. But from now on it will be running as a regular post each Monday morning with the all the interesting, intriguing, and often weird medical news that’s out there.
Here’s this week’s strange but true news…
Ping Pong Ball Keeps Girl Alive – a quick thinking surgeon came up with a unique way to keep a young liver transplant patient alive. The two year old was the recipent of an adult liver. The liver, obviously too large for the child’s body, needed to have some sort of barrier placed between it and the child’s main arteries. The …read more