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musings on medicines from the Earth
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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July 30, 2007
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
The author of Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry, Dan Hurley, has a three-minute video editorial at Medscape today. I must admit to being a little ambivalent about his message that, "Evidence-based medicine...
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Category: REPOST (Classic Terra Sig)
A repost on the shortcomings of some botanical medicine clinical trials.
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July 28, 2007
Category: Personal
Only 74% of the States? How 'bout you? create your own visited states map or check out these Google Hacks....
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July 27, 2007
Today's side effect is tomorrow's therapy.
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July 26, 2007
Category: Clinical trials
When readers are looking for clinical trials information, particularly for cancer therapies, I often refer to the NIH-operated clinicaltrials.gov: ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a...
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July 25, 2007
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
Herb-drug interactions are less likely to be reported than drug-OTC drug interactions.
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July 24, 2007
Category: Political interference in science
I woke this morning to BBC reporting that the six Bulgarian nurses and doctor charged erroneously with transmitting HIV to over 400 Libyan children have been released and are safely home in Bulgaria. Orac and Revere here at ScienceBlogs covered...
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July 22, 2007
Category: Humor
$4240.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth....
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July 21, 2007
Category: Women in science and medicine
Creator of one of the most famous images in scientific history.
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Category: Drug safety
Orac has the complete story but the FDA has finally shut down sales of dichloroacetate by theDCAsite.com and buydca.com run by Jim Tassano and Heather Nordstrom. Two agents (Chris and Steve) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of...
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