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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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- Live from Seattle: Bisphenol A sucks, folate comes to the rescue
- Live from Seattle: It's the Society of Toxicology!
- Pfizer drug can cause heart failure. Gee, ya think?
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What I'm reading, watching, and rating:
Saw
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
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The way things are:
How much for that pill in the window?
Two things got me thinking about the upcoming topic. 1) I saw "Into the Woods" recently and there's a part where the old hermit asks the baker how much $ a son would be worth (he's trying to have a...Posted on January 29, 2008 7:26 AM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
News Flash: Industry thinks there should be fewer whistleblowers at the FDA
A reader sent an article from The Pink Sheet (an industry rag focused on Pharma). If you've never read industry-specific news publications, you're really missing out. They're really facinating and instructive. Sometimes you get early knowledge about industry trends and...Posted on January 8, 2008 7:46 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Get your free animal testing karma pass here!
After the dust up last week about violent anti-animal testing groups (coast down through the comments on the linked Denialism post to get the short version of my take), two things stuck in my head. One, the Dalai Lama says...Posted on November 5, 2007 8:52 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Knee Jerks
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 on September 11, 2007 7:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is your Doctor in Denial?
That's the hed for the Washington Post story on the study that found that doctors ignored or dismissed patients concerns about side effects and didn't report them to MedWatch (the FDA system for collecting side effects). The Post goes through...Posted on August 30, 2007 8:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Abigail Alliance, Cancer, Steroids and the FDA
What do the Abigail Alliance and steroid use have to do with each other? Read on. The US DC Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the finding for the Abigail Alliance and ruled for the FDA (supported by the American...Posted on August 9, 2007 8:30 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
