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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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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 • 2 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
NY Times Ends Pay for Premium Content
Category: Journalism
This e-mail just came in overnight - a great move by the New York Times: Dear TimesSelect Subscriber, We are ending TimesSelect, effective today. The Times's Op-Ed and news columns are now available to everyone free of charge, along with...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2007
The Scientist Compiles Must-Read SciBlog Faves
Category: Blogging community
Folks from The Scientist recently asked a group of science bloggers to recommend their three, must-read blogs to provide a guide to those who might not have been following the scientific blogosphere. Somehow I got selected to post my votes,...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2007
Biomedical Trainees Caught Between The Discordant Goals of Universities and the NIH
Category: Career development
Universities love them that NIH money, but are trainees getting the shaft?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:41 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2007
Chinese Anticancer Drugs Tainted; Ractopamine Pig Wars
Category: Drug safety
Leukemia Drug Adulteration Chinese generic versions of the anticancer drugs, methotrexate and cytarabine hydrochloride, have been reported to be contaminated with an undisclosed substance according to several wire reports this morning. Several children in a Shanghai hospital were reported to...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2007
Why Terra Sigillata?
Category: REPOST (Classic Terra Sig)
Where did I come up with that name, anyway?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:15 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 14, 2007
No, No..Thank YOU, Lymphoma Survivors and Advocates
Category: Love for Terra Sig readers
[Welcome Daily Kos readers and many thanks to DarkSyde for the link - btw, if you're wondering what Terra Sigillata is, click here.] The other day I fired off a quick post on the absurdity of the Centers for Medicare...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:09 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 12, 2007
Reality and Class at a Cancer Research Meeting
Category: Cancer
A reminder of why we do biomedical research.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2007
Personal Reflections on a September 11th (9/11) Hero
Category: REPOST (Classic Terra Sig)
No 9/11 fatigue here.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:46 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2007
Reed Elsevier's Experiment With Online Free Access
Category: Medical Publishing
Mixed blessing or benefit to community oncologists? And Nick Genes to boot!
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 2007
Zencore Tabs: Keeping More Than Sales Up
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
How to make an herbal supplement efficacious? Add a prescription drug!
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 2007
The Friday Fermentable: Michael Jackson Remembered
Category: Beer
This week has seen an outpouring of sentiments in the wake of the death of famed beer and spirits writer, Michael Jackson. Therefore, we dedicate this edition of The Friday Fermentable to the memory of this remarkable gentleman and writer....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2007
College Bloggers Vie For $10,000
Category: Blogging community
Are you in college and a blogger? Nominate yourself or a friend.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 4, 2007
Low-Resveratrol Muscadine Grape Skin Extract (MSKE) Inhibits Prostate Cancer Cell Growth
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
A press release came in from the US NIH before the weekend noting that NCI's Dr Jeffrey Green has identified potential anticancer activities from a grape skin extract that is not dependent on the presence of the well-known compound, resveratrol....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 3, 2007
Labor Day in the US
Category: REPOST (Classic Terra Sig)
Today is the Labor Day holiday in the United States. This post originally appeared here on 4 September 2006. I cleaned it up and updated a bit but the discussion of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre seems particularly poignant due to...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:14 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 2, 2007
National Toast to Michael Jackson to Benefit Parkinson's Disease Research
Category: Beer
As I noted last evening, the world of beer and spirits is mourning the loss of British writer and libation enthusiast, Michael Jackson. Jackson was suffering from Parkinson's disease but succumbed to a heart attack earlier this week at age...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 1, 2007
The Passing of Michael Jackson
Category: Beer
International ambassador for traditional beers and ales dies at age 65.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Videos On Avoiding Counterfeit Drugs On Internet, Fentanyl Patch Safety
Category: Drug safety
An excellent (and free) professional service of the US FDA often addresses topics of broad public interest.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
