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.
You can learn quickly the distinction between the fields of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacy, the Pharmaceutical Sciences by clicking on the hyperlinks. You can learn more about the author here.
"Why Terra Sigillata?" will tell you about the origin of the blog name.
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April 29, 2008
Category: Blog carnivals
Offer extended through Friday! Friday! Friday! 2 May!!!! Submit entries to tarheeltavern.abel at gmail. For the first time since I've lived here, the NC primary will actually matter especially given that Clinton and Obama appear to now be running neck-and-neck...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:38 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2008
Category: Pharmacology
Well, not only am I weaseling out of posting original content today but I'm going to direct you to an excellent repost by Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock. I am often asked why plants expend the bioenergetic...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2008
Category: Personal
Is a better blog a more frequent blog with multiple voices?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:18 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2008
Category: Women in science and medicine
Two essays in BMJ earlier this month feed a BusinessWeek article that is generating rancor and sober discussion.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Graduate Education
How to eat healthy with minimal financial resources. Your ideas?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:16 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2008
Category: Blogging community
Physician-bloggers in the e-flesh tonight online.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2008
Category: Pharmaceuticals
Real science applied to natural CAM therapies might equal real medicine.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 12:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2008
Category: Blogging community
Naughty for forgetting to submit a post for this week's carnival of the medical blogosphere.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2008
Category: Blogging community
If you've ever lived or trained in NC, let the world know about this place in time for the 6 May Democratic primaries.
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April 20, 2008
Category: Archaeology
Today's remembrance of the miners, their wives and children massacred by the Colorado National Guard and a then Rockefeller-run coal company reminds us of what working for a living really meant.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:02 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 18, 2008
Category: Music
You know we're getting old when our idols start dying of regular stuff like cancer and cardiovascular disease instead of drug overdoses.
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April 17, 2008
Category: Alternative medicine
"Leadership and Business Strategies for Integrative Health Care" - a three-day, ethics-free conference on "improving the patient experience" and lining the pockets of health administrators, brought to you in part by Elsevier.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2008
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
Aristolochic acid and human placenta found in supplements, plus ephedrine alkaloids no longer permitted in dietary supplements. What next?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:20 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2008
Category: Drugs of Abuse
". . .you got marijuana in my lead." Two great tastes that do not go great together. A major international alert to recreational users of marijuana/cannabis.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:35 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 11, 2008
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Meritage, America's brand of Bordeaux, makes a strong showing in notes from Erleichda's periodic wine-dinner tastings. So why didn't I do my postdoc with this guy???
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2008
Category: Toxicology
Selenium poisoning by a dietary supplement renews support for strengthening dietary supplement regulation.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:25 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 9, 2008
Category: Blogging community
A new RSS feed of reader-selected ScienceBlogs posts.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 6, 2008
Category: Infectious diseases
Alamosa is a town of 8,500 residents on the west side of the Rockies in southern Colorado, equidistant to Denver and Albuquerque. You may sometimes hear of Alamosa described by Al Roker or other morning weather reporters as the "nation's...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 5, 2008
Category: Blogging community
The Pharmboy *hearts* Katherine Sharpe.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 4, 2008
Category: Children and cancer
Actinomycin D was the first antitumor antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces cultures by the lab of Nobel laureate, Dr Selman Waksman, at Rutgers University. However, it took a young Chinese physician and the confidence in her by a future US Surgeon General for this natural product drug to positively impact the lives of children with cancer.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 2, 2008
Category: Blogging community
An open letter to the Framing Wars: Can we start by just considering Chris Mooney as a person distinct from Matt Nisbet?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:02 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pharmacy
One of the drawbacks to writing under a pseudonym is that when people around you do well, it's sort of dodgy how you can use the blog to congratulate them publicly. In fact, dear readers might ask: "Why bother putting...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
