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
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Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of an academic researcher and educator who holds a PhD in Pharmacology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, academic career development, medical journalism and, occasionally, making and listening to music and wine appreciation for the monetarily-challenged.
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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 Comments • 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 • 2 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 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 16, 2006
The ugly reason for CAM in US medical schools
Category: Alternative medicine
Over the last several days, Dr. RW, Orac, and Joseph (Corpus Callosum) have been discussing the virtues, or lack thereof, of a national medical student association espousing the coverage of integrative, complementary and alternative medicine (ICAM) modalities in the medical...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:14 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2006
Alternative medicine education in US medical schools
Category: Medical education
Both Dr. RW and Orac have great posts this week on the dichotomy of critical thinking skills espoused by the American Medical Students Association (AMSA), a US national medical student association. Most interesting is their support this week of a...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:16 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2006
From The Onion: Healthy Snacks
Category: Humor
Some Saturday morning humor that literally had me laughing out loud, as only The Onion can do (foul language, but I think even PharmMom will appreciate this): Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks "Weren't Sun Chips healthy enough for...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:05 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2006
The Friday Fermentable: Mass-produced winners
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Readers of this near-weekly feature have been the beneficiaries over the last few weeks of the wisdom from my scientific and wine colleague, Erleichda. Now with the feature back in my hands, I am now realizing that one difficulty in...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:13 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carl Zimmer in National Geographic
Category: Evolution
While sitting at Chez Pharmboi tonight preparing the belated Friday Fermentable, I picked up our Nov 2006 issue of National Geographic. Therein, is a superbly-written, photographically-dense article by SciBling colleague, Carl Zimmer, entitled, "A Fin is a Limb is a...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2006
"Eating Fabulous" endorsement
Category: Blogging community
Natural products is an interesting field of science since various parts of it appeal greatly to different segments of the general public. Hence, we are very excited and honored to be recognized by the culinary functional foods and nutraceuticals blog,...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:34 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2006
Durham district attorney race: Nifong emerges as non-majority victor
Category: The Old North State
All I was doing yesterday was answering our webhost-wide "Ask A ScienceBlogger" query about the most notable local election races in our respective communities. I was taken aback by getting more traffic on my displeasure with Durham DA, Mike Nifong,...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 7, 2006
NCCAM director steps down
Category: Alternative medicine
This press release just in from NIH is entitled, "Stephen E. Straus, M.D. becomes senior advisor to NIH director," but what it really means is that a change in leadership is occurring at NIH's alternative medicine arm, the National Center...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Durham district attorney race: Nifong
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
We've been out-of-town for a few days but the election day "Ask A ScienceBlogger" requested that we note a local election of special import. One cannot live in the North Carolina Research Triangle area without being aware of the polarizing...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:58 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 3, 2006
The Friday Fermentable: France's Lot Valley, by Erleichda
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Another Wine Escapade: Valle du Lot by Erleichda Sweetpea and I enjoy hiking as a platform for vacationing (when we're not partaking of some beach spot). We've managed to attract a few likeminded fellow hikers, and are now able to...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 2, 2006
Benevolent referrals
Category: Blogging community
Many thanks to my oncology colleague and ScienceBlogs.com SciBling, Orac, for his repeated referrals to my posts as of late. He's been one of my blogging mentors from the genesis of my blogosphere presence and generally ranks #1 or #2...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 5:51 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Revisiting resveratrol for aging
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
Earlier this week during Chris Mooney's NC visit, I noted two articles in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times on reports of caloric restriction (CR) and the possibility that some drugs might replicate the health benefits of CR....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 1, 2006
Chris Mooney's Southern Swing
Category: Blogging community
Chris Mooney stormed across the NC Triangle with his message of The Republican War on Science.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
