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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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November 30, 2007
Category: Science/medical journalism
The need for academia to place more value on public science education by rewarding those faculty who perform public outreach and even, gulp, write science blogs.
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Category: Erleichda
Our intrepid guest blogger, Erleichda, dispatches one of two missives on a trip to New Zealand wine country.
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November 28, 2007
Category: Blogging community
Many thanks to Terra Sig readers around our Terra.
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Category: Florida
This question, posed in 1965 by a Gator football coach to University of Florida renal physiologist J. Robert Cade, MD, PhD, led to the development of Gatorade and the tremendously successful sports drink industry.
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November 27, 2007
Category: Drug safety
Taking advantage of a drug-food interaction to reduce costs of expensive drugs. Take it with a grain of salt.
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November 26, 2007
Category: Humor
We discussed in a post the other day about the use of a class of anti-glaucoma drugs for cosmetic purposes to increase the number and thickness of eyelashes. Well, we can always count on The Onion to provide us with...
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November 25, 2007
Category: Pharmacoeconomics
As I sat to write a post this morning, I became more engaged in a story in the New York Times magazine by Dr Daniel Carlat entitled, "Dr. Drug Rep." Joseph of Corpus Callosum recently commented here about being solicited...
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November 23, 2007
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Toys for Tots and dark beers for the big kids.
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November 22, 2007
Category: Love for Terra Sig readers
For readers not in the US, today is Thanksgiving Day. Our friends to the north celebrated their harvest festival last month. I'll be giving thanks today to my local Honeybaked Ham® franchise for making our little stay-at-home celebration that much...
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November 21, 2007
Category: Blogging community
Everybody is from somewhere. You just never know when one of your local heroes will be willing to come back and get involved in local issues again. Dr Wesley R. Elsberry states in his open letter to the Polk County school board, "I was born in Lakeland, Florida, and lived for eighteen years there. My parents still live there. I still care about what happens in my home town."
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