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AngryToxicologist is a scientist in the public health sector, knows plenty about toxicology, and is occasionally angry about it all. Drop me a line at tox@angrytoxicologist.com.
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What I'm reading, watching, and rating:
SawMichael Clayton*** out of 5
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
September 28, 2007
Category: Regulations
The NYTimes reports today on an upcoming HHS OIG (Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General) report among other things audited less than 1% of clinical trial testing sites. When they did show up it was usually after...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:03 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
It's nice to a see a good study every once in a while and after about 30 years of debating whether preservatives cause hyperactivity/attention deficit. I can't go into all the studies that have been done because there are too...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:31 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2007
Category: Regulations
I've been AWOL this week on SB; life, apparently, is not concerned with what is convienent for you. Anywho... The House on thursday passed the FDA reform bill (H.R. 3580) by a huge margin (405-7) and the Senate passed it...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:52 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 14, 2007
Category: Non-Science Fridays
Three things I thought you might find interesting today, starting with the shortest: Don't pass the gas. When you get crude oil, there is usually a natural gas pocket that goes along with it. Most drillers just burn it off....
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:29 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 13, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine ($ required) was published this week that found that from 1998 to 2005, adverse drug reactions increased 2.6 times (89,842 in 2005) while the number of scripts written only went up 0.65...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2007
Category: The way things are
I couldn't have said it better myself so I won't try. I stumbled accross this yesterday (it's about a month old). Via Slate. This week, some big thinkers about biotechnology came to Washington for a "progressive bioethics summit." They invited...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
It must have been a slow news day over at MSN because they headlined a story that was pegged to a study published in 2005 (as far as I can tell). Anyway, the point of the article was that air...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:28 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 2007
Category: Non-Science Fridays
I read a couple of critiques of Going Tribal (Or Tribe depending on whether you watch via the BBC or the Discovery Channel) lately that piqued my interest. The first was by The Times and the other was from Short...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:05 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
A man who eats a lot of popcorn (2 bags a day) has been diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans (via NYTimes). The fact that diacetyl is still used is rediculous so I re-posted the popcorn/obliterated lung piece. What is interesting about...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:44 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
Well, we've gone over why tea supplements aren't a good idea, but the question of chemoprevention by drinking tea is still up in the air. I thought it would be interesting to lay out what's been done. Let's start with...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:36 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
