Minerva: August 2003
BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0308306 (Published 01 August 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:0308306
- Sarita Jain, staff grade1,
- Catherine Stephens, consultant1,
- Vanita Pathak-Ray, specialist registrar2,
- H A Ahluwalia, specialist registrar2
- 1department of dermatology, Poole Hospital NHS Trust, Poole, BH15 2JB
- 2Cardiff Eye Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, CF4 4XN
The consumption of junk food arguably places a greater burden on healthcare systems than healthy food. A spokesman for the Centre for Science in the Public Interest (Canada) says that Canadians should be ready to pay additional taxes on these items, as they already do on tobacco and alcohol, “to pay for the increased financial toll.” The association wants such “sin taxes” to apply at both restaurants and grocery shops (Canadian Medical Association Journal 2003;168:1697).
A 41 year old man with multiple tattoos on his arm presented to the dermatology department with an itchy eczematous rash in all the red areas of the tattoos. He had tattoos for 15 years but had had some of the red areas refilled a year earlier. The rash appeared after the refilling, and it affected red areas that had not been touched up with red dye. This second exposure to …
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