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.
Any money I would have gotten from writing this blog is donated to the National Capital Poison Control Center. They rely on grants, save lives, and decrease health care costs. So read this blog every day!
What I'm reading, watching, and rating:
Saw
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
February 14, 2008
Category: Media
From the non-news that's news' department, Reuters reproted on a study that showed that ~15% of patients who took Sutent, a kidney and cancer drug, developed heart failure. Dr Melinda Telli presented information on 48 patients who took Sutent at...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:27 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2008
Category: Depressing/Infuriating
For those of you in any field that deals with health, you may know this feeling. Fortunately this is rare but in the past two weeks I've been completely exasperated at 3 different meetings and discussions I've been to. Without...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:56 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 6, 2008
Category: The way things are
The hubris of these people is stunning to think that they can devise a cell-based screen to predict possible toxicities when we don't even understand completely how cells work, much less how they interact, much less how millions of processes are interrelated in a whole animal. If we understood all this stuff don't you think we'd know how to cure diseases and develop drugs that only targeted what you wanted them to target?
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 1, 2008
Category: Regulations
There's something rotten in Bethesda Public Citizen released, and the WaPo reported on, findings that the CPSC manytimes takes six months or more to alert the public of dangerous products. Never fear, says the National Association of Manufacturers, the CPSC...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
