The Friday Fermentable: Chateauneuf du Pape
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Wines from the "New House of the Pope"
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 1 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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August 31, 2007
August 30, 2007
Misguided Medicare Money Mayhem
Category: Pharmacoeconomics
Karl Schwartz is a tireless lymphoma patient advocate who is co-founder and president of Patients Against Lymphoma. Karl also oversees their excellent website, Lymphomation.org. A missive from Karl came in today detailing how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 5:36 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2007
Great Animal Research Poster
Category: Bioethics
The Foundation for Biomedical Research notes that animal research allows animal rights activists to protest 23.5 years longer.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2007
I am not worthy
Category: Women's health
Five years later, I am still not worthy.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:28 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2007
The Friday Fermentable: Little-Known or Under-Publicized Grapes
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Have you tried wines made from unusual or under-recognized grape varieties?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2007
My Short Take on "HIV Denial in the Internet Era"
Category: Blogging community
Did you know just how pervasive HIV denial is?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2007
Misguided Autism Treatment Death Leads to Manslaughter Charge
Category: Pediatric health
Legal action on a well-known, and sad, two-year-old case.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apple Cider Vinegar Capsules Can Help You Lose Weight
Category: Drug safety
...if they contain the prescription weight-loss drug, sibutramine.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2007
Personalized Medicine, Part 2: Metabolic Activation of Codeine to Morphine
Category: Pharmacogenetics
A genetic polymorphism causing ultra-rapid conversion of codeine to morphine underlies last week's FDA warning to nursing mothers taking codeine for post-partum pain.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2007
Personalized Medicine, Part 1: Coumadin (warfarin)
Category: Pharmacogenetics
How individual genetic differences are being used to improve drug safety.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 5:01 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2007
Unpopular "Psychic" Cat of Doom Meets Demise
Category: Humor
Oscar, the nursing home cat of doom, meets bedpan-wielding assassin.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 6:02 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2007
The Friday Fermentable: "Bee" Cautious With Some Wines
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Bee venom in wine can cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 14, 2007
Mannatech: More of the Wrong Kind of Attention
Category: Quackery
The Wall Street Journal reports that a top Mannatech (Wikipedia, corporate) distributor has been found guilty of not paying federal income taxes. He [Raymond Gebauer] became an associate in 1994 and his sales network, operating through companies he owned, was...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 12, 2007
A more reliable source of experimental human hepatocytes
Category: Drug safety
A major improvement in the source of a key reagent in drug discovery, drug interactions, liver injury, and liver diseases.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:31 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 9, 2007
No constitutional right to unapproved drugs
Category: Drug safety
The ethical conundrum of our demand for absolute drug safety while desiring access to unapproved drugs in life-threatening conditions.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 6, 2007
Protecting Wisconsin-grown ginseng
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
Misrepresentation of a clinically-active herbal extract leads to proposed legislation to require stricter labeling standards.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 1, 2007
Do celebrities and CEOs cause US airspace congestion?
Category: Politics
Bear with me. I'm posting this on ScienceBlogs because many of us have had our own beefs with the US airline industry. Many readers also travel around to conferences and, as a result, must use a US airline. Hence, this...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:23 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
