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Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of an academic researcher and educator who took his PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and BS in Toxicology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, academic career development, medical journalism and, occasionally, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.
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August 31, 2006
Category: Cancer
I'm deeply appreciative of all who've come out to support my student and former lab intern, Jen, who is riding in her brother's memory in the Philadelphia LIVESTRONG Challenge 100-mile bike ride for the Lance Armstrong Foundation on 10 Sept...
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Category: Politics
Sadly, we have no Winston Churchills evident among us this evening. We have only Donald Rumsfelds, demonizing disagreement, the way Neville Chamberlain demonized Winston Churchill. But we at least have Keith Olbermann, and an all-too-small handful of journalists willing to...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2006
Category: The American South
I was so happy to learn that this e-mail is still posted on CNN's website. After I read it a year ago, I paid $55 on eBay for a Joe Horn Saints' jersey: There was a Saint in New Orleans...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2006
Category: Women's health
Four years ago at 11:24 am EDT (1624 GMT), your humble blogger was handed the keys to a whole new vocabulary of love. The gift came in the form of a 7 lb. 13 oz. (3,544 gm), 20.5 inch (52...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:24 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2006
Category: Florida
The Burnham Institute chooses Orlando. First, some big health systems like Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic established satellite hospitals and clinics across north and south Florida. Now we learn that one of the top non-profit research institutes in the US...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:23 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2006
Category: Political interference in science
The wimpy approval of OTC status today for Plan B emergency contraception only for women 18 and older has me nonplussed. I've been disgusted by the intrusion of politics into science and medicine on this issue for quite some time....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging community
I've been terribly remiss in not welcoming the trickle of additions to the ScienceBlogs.com stable, especially Molecule of the Day, the new blog most allied with my subject matter. However, I was not going to miss the Sb launch of...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2006
Category: Cancer
The beauty of being here on ScienceBlogs.com is being part of an international discussion with so many folks from diverse backgrounds. So, on many occasions, commentors have more to say than I, with both broader perspective and greater brevity. In...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2006
Category: Blogging community
A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey, writes in and says, Dear Roseanne Roseannadanna, I just read of some bizarre Southern ritual whereby Durham-Chapel Hill-RTP bloggers are meeting this coming Friday for a barbecue. What have Triangle bloggers...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:46 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2006
Category: Religion
I try to not to be too much of a homer here, especially since moving to ScienceBlogs.com. Instead, I have been running a second blog called Bull City Bully Pulpit for items of local interest that our some of the...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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