There are numerous causes of red or pink urine from something you have eaten through to infections and cancers. If you notice red urine without an obvious cause, then you should always see your nurse or doctor. Cathy was a close personal and family friend, so I have written this brief tribute to her with great personal sadness and ongoing grief but also with deep gratitude and joy for having had the privilege of Cathy sharing part of her life and work with me and for being a mentor, ally, inspiration and colleague as well as critical friend. The study in which Cathy was involved had a sample of 597 local authority households but the researchers estimated that between a quarter and a third of all council housing in Scotland was actually subject to dampness at the time of this research.

The winning Scottish Boys Area Team Championship team - Euan Brown, Cameron Gray, David Currie & Michael Stewart. Sometimes urine changes colour and it can take you by surprise as well as trigger concerns about what might have caused it.Cathy finished her formal education at the age of 15, leaving school against her wishes at her parents’ insistence (her financial contribution was essential to keep the family’s head above water). Cathy lived most of her adult life unemployed in Easterhouse, a township of 60,000 people, thrown up outside Glasgow to accommodate the tenants of demolished tenements in inner city areas of Glasgow. When Cathy moved into Easterhouse, it was characterised by astronomical unemployment, dire relative and absolute poverty, catastrophically low levels of health, damp fungal spore infested housing, absent community infrastructure and rudimentary public transport. Over many decades, Cathy countered by emphasising the incomparably more vicious socio-structural, political, ideological, psychological and epistemological violence, the war without bullets or briefcase war, being waged on the people of Easterhouse (and others elsewhere deemed surplus to the requirements of neoliberal capitalism). This violence was delivered not by using fists, baseball bats and knives – but by development and deployment of policies and practices which manufactured unemployment, inequality, material poverty, socio-economic apartheid, oppression in abandoned ghetto-townships and ‘social-scientific’ practices and associated knowledges in the form of individualistic intra-psychic interventions, psychiatric snake-oil remedies etc. and problematic ‘knowledges’ whose only outcome was to position what was going wrong as the fault of those on whom the war was being waged. In a veritable orgy of sustained victim-blaming, the people living in Easterhouse were widely positioned by many journalists, politicians and even public health professionals as responsible for their own misery, morbidity and mortality and Easterhouse was stigmatised as a community characterised by profound intra-community violence. David Fryer left his position as Professor of Community Critical Psychology at Charles Sturt University, Australia in October 2011 to devote more time to applied critical theory and promoting resistance to neoliberal oppression. He is grateful to The University of Queensland where he currently has an honorary position providing him with library facilities and the countless other resources available to academics. Other pee drinkers believe their habit lengthens their lifespan. Practitioners of “urotherapy” claim that consuming your own urine can cure acne, weight problems, and even cancer. The American Cancer Society does not agree.

Dr Juliet McGrattan explores why urine might turn all the colours of the rainbow, and what it indicates about our underlying health.

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I was let out of the car at the Sgiogarstaidh road end by my dear wife at 12.30pm on what appeared to be a short break in the weather. Within 30 minutes I arrived at Bonny Cuisheadair which, despite the "Western Isles Walking Guide's" assurance that it was full of ruins, turned out to be quite well cared for with well maintained huts some of them surrounded by mown grass and planters. Some wag had also placed a sign warning the unsuspecting walker of koala bears! This is by no means the end of the story though. The tenant activists had agreed to maximise participation in the study, something the researchers could do little about, if in return, the researchers agreed to remain committed to promoting the interests of the tenants beyond academic publication of the findings. Accordingly, the research was reported in local newspapers, on local radio and television; it was used to stimulate concern in the housing department, the environmental health department, the regional council, the community health council, legal centres and by the housing charity, Shelter. The research was cited in court cases by tenants; by the Scottish Grand Committee in the UK Houses of Parliament and the Minister of State for Housing in Scotland; by the Housing Department in applying to the Scottish Office for extra funding; by local forums of GPs, local councillors and tenants to bring about action.