musings on medicines from the Earth
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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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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July 20, 2007
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Guest wine-blogger Erleichda goes south for a tour of reds.
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July 19, 2007
Category: Diet and Health
A mysterious comment from the president of the Corn Refiners Association raises my suspicions.
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July 16, 2007
Category: Personal
We're on the road today but I wanted to be sure that my Mom gets her birthday mentioned on the blog, so I scheduled this post in advance. Put simply, my Mom is my inspiration for everything I have become....
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Category: Cancer
Organic arsenic for cancer gets attention of investment community.
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July 14, 2007
Category: Diet and Health
Does high-fructose corn syrup contribute to obesity or are we just consuming larger volumes of all sweetened beverages?
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July 9, 2007
Category: Physiology
Not exactly full-blown acute mountain sickness, but prolonged exposure to pressurized airline cabins is enough to cause forms of discomfort that precede the disorder.
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July 7, 2007
Category: Music
Destined for the annals of music history are the sole representatives of Antarctica during today's Live Earth concerts - Nunatak. Engineers and scientists who comprise the 22 members of the British Antarctic Survey rocked it today with one of their...
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July 5, 2007
Category: Food safety
An ongoing food safety issue in China to go along with other recent concerns about Chinese-sourced foods and drugs.
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July 3, 2007
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
For the rest of July, Nature Chemical Biology is offering free access to about ten articles on research and training in natural products. Investigations into natural products have recently regained prominence with the increasing understanding of their biological significance and...
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July 1, 2007
Category: Evolution
Lots of action in today's New York TImes Book Review section.
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