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musings on medicines from the Earth
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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June 30, 2009
Category: The Awesome Power of Natural Products
For all of you parents of children with cancer, here's what your kids might be doing in 50 years.
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June 27, 2009
Category: Beer
All you need to know about this new documentary is: Beer. Rock & Roll. North Carolina.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 6:24 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Music
McGill University Professor of History Gil Troy gets me thinking: Just as Elvis Presley introduced gospel and blues to white folks, Jackson will be cited (and already has been) for cultivating R&B among white listeners and performers. I'd go so far as to say that we wouldn't have suburban white kids posing as rappers and hip-hop stars if not for the musical diplomacy of Michael Jackson.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:16 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2009
Category: Drugs of Abuse
Demerol® (meperidine) is not like other opioid analgesics; its active metabolite, normeperidine, is a well-known, paradoxical stimulant of the central nervous system and heart. Toxic concentrations can cause fatal seizures or cardiac arrhythmias leading to cardiac arrest. Michael Jackson's death may raise awareness of the risks posed by meperidine, a drug that is unnecessary when so many other opioid analgesics are available.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 6:02 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Beer
Kim Severson asks what happens if you have a career in the alcoholic beverage industry but become an alcoholic or alcohol abuser?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:02 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2009
Category: Alternative medicine
Seems to me that the only wrinkles you'll fix are the ones on your buttocks where your wallet used to sit.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:02 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2009
Category: Personal
Reese Witherspoon is not my wife - but she will be Pharm Girl.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2009
Category: Blogging community
What's your Cyborg name???
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2009
Category: Quackery
Using sex appeal to frame a message combatting pseudoscience. What say you?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:02 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Bursting with local pride this morning at the summer camp stunt of a NC State University materials scientist. My only question is why they didn't drop it onto a huge sheet of color Sunday comics.
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