Did you get a NIH K99/R00 award?
Category: Career development
Here's hoping some of our colleagues are among the lucky 58.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Terra Sigillata
musings on medicines from the Earth
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Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of David J Kroll, a US state university educator and cancer researcher who holds a PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and BS in Toxicology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, issues of under-represented groups in the STEMM disciplines, science and medical journalism, the science and culture of North Carolina, Florida, and Colorado, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.
"Why Terra Sigillata?" will tell you more about the origin of the blog name.
Please read the DISCLAIMER for details on the blog's intended audience, advertising and comment policy, and how not to use the information presented herein.
For the record, this is a personal blog and any content or opinions expressed are solely the author's and do not reflect those of his university employer or funding agencies. He does get a bit ornery from time to time.
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November 30, 2006
Pfizer sales force cuts
Category: Pharmaceuticals
Consensus: a good thing...unless you are one of the 2,200 losing your job.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:58 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2006
Undeclared anchovies
Category: Drug safety
What's in your turkey sandwich?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 6:29 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have an accent?
Category: Memes
With more than half of my life in the South and the West, there's still no taking the Jersey out of the boy: What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2006
Do you get the one about Abe Lincoln and the beaver?
Category: Advertising
Drug advertising that challenges the viewer.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:01 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2006
More things with cornstarch and water
Category: Science Comes Alive
Coolest demonstration of a non-Newtonian fluid.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 6:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2006
Fire safety alert: Turkey deep-frying
Category: The American South
This was going to be a funny post until I saw this video, provided by the Cary, NC, Fire Department via our local newspaper. With the storms up and down the US East Coast today and tomorrow (and frickin' snow...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:31 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another joins the battle against fraudulent supplements
Category: Quackery
I read yesterday with joy the post by fellow ScienceBlogger, Alex Palazzo (The Daily Transcript), on his disbelief that autism advocates are selling oral supplements of yeast RNA. The pseudoscientific rationale is that RNA might chelate divalent cations (i.e., mercury)...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 6:41 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2006
The Angry Pharmacist makes for good reading
Category: Pharmacy
Long ago in a place far away, I was a full-time pharmacy professor. I love pharmacy students, almost as much as I love medical and nursing students. But, to me, pharmacy students were special because they would one day be...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:48 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2006
Fitting close to a bad week for alternative medicines
Category: Alternative medicine
"It's shameless," says David Colquhoun, professor of pharmacology at University College London. "Medicines work or don't work, and they should be labelled accordingly," he says. Professor Colquhoun is quoted in today's New Scientist in response to the first registration of...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 5:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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