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Main website

The main website was built with Expression Engine by Peter R Mansfield helped by suggestions from David Eligman, Joel Lexchin and Joana Ramos.

Main template

The main template was based on the design for the previous HS website from Wild Lime and ideas from Bright Side of Life by StyleShout.

The layout was based on CSS Liquid Layout #3.3- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed) from Dynamic Drive.

The main menu was based on Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb at HTML Dog

The printer-friendly preview was based on an article by Pete McVicar at A List Apart

The Fugue and Diagona icons were from Pinvoke. The flag icons (on the pay/amount page) were from Fam Fam Fam

The Rounded Corners were from the The Corner Shop

The 1px orange border was from Webcredible

The Library

The library was built by Peter R Mansfield.

The AdGallery

The AdGallery was built by Peter R Mansfield with Expression Engine and the Image Sizer plugin from Lumis.

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909