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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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March 31, 2007
Category: Blogging community
Death threats against a tech blogger cause Tim O'Reilly and friends to suggest that we are responsible for not only our content, but the content of our comment threads as well.
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March 30, 2007
Category: The Friday Fermentable
The meaning of Merlot to Utahans, and who is Fran Liebowitz anyway???
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Category: Drug safety
You may have read that pergolide (Permax), a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease, has been withdrawn voluntarily from the US market due to its causal association with heart valve abnormalities. I hope to have time later to discuss why...
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March 27, 2007
Category: Chemistry
A few years ago, GlaxoSmithKline marketed Remifemin brand of black cohosh extract from their consumer products division as a hormone-free alternative in managing menopausal symptoms. But after reports surfaced that black cohosh might be associated with cases of liver damage,...
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March 26, 2007
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
Results from major US cardiology meeting on a semi-synthetic derivative of a compound from Australian magnolia bark.
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March 25, 2007
Category: Pediatric health
Docs have a million of these kinds of stories, but pediatrician Dr Clark Bartram at Unintelligent Design put up a particularly moving reflection on a recent case....
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March 24, 2007
Category: Cancer
For your Saturday morning reading pleasure, here are two articles following up on my dichloroacetate (DCA) and bogus internet pharmacy death posts this week. Each was recommended by my clandestine operative from the Great White North, PharmCanuck: Canadian cancer society...
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March 23, 2007
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Guest-blogger Erleichda returns with a blind tasting of Pinot Noir, a column he wrote in November that I overlooked in my e-mail queue. Forty lashes with a grapevine!
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March 22, 2007
Category: Humor
Former Parke-Davis employee and late night character dies at 85.
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Category: Drug safety
OmniBrain's Sandra Kiuwe points out the drawbacks of responding to the "buy tramadol, buy Viagra, buy Vicodin" internet gambit.
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