Six Apart Supports K-12 Education Through DonorsChoose
Category: K-12 education
Want to give $30 to support teachers' projects without a penny coming out of your pocket?
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Terra Sigillata
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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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September 29, 2007
September 28, 2007
The Friday Fermentable: Oktoberfest, the Festival and the Beer
Category: The Friday Fermentable
What's your favorite Oktoberfest (Marzen) beer?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 26, 2007
A Brief Respite
Category: Alternative medicine
Posting will be light over the next week or so but there is plenty of great science blogging out there to feed your soul. One of yesterday's more interesting posts, and pertinent to this blog, was by Mark Hoofnagle at...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:09 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2007
The Scientist Favorite Life Science Blogs Revisited: Why No Women?
Category: Blogging community
It turns out that female bloggers were also asked for their suggestions.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2007
Let's-Get-Together-And-See- Where-This-Goes
Category: Blogging community
Great local coverage of Anton Zuiker and the NC SciBloggerCon.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2007
If Pet Turtles Were Outlawed, Only Outlaws Would Have Pet Turtles
Category: Pharmaceutical Law
Paws off pet turtles, FDA! More serious than you'd think.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Advertisers and Pharma: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
Category: Advertising
Guess we'll be seeing more of Abe Lincoln and the talking beaver.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2007
Why lay off 25% of the FDA
Category: Drug safety
And PDUFA supports how much of the FDA's personnel???
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:04 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2007
Source of Muscadine Grape Skin Extract (MSKE)
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
Follow up on report of in vitro anticancer activity of muscadine grape skin extract (MSKE); a good paper but the product is far from ready for patient use.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2007
Have You Ever Gotten A "Good" Rejection Letter?
Category: Academia
FemaleScienceProfessor wants to know....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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