Category: Pharmaceuticals
I generally pay extra to purchase brand name medications, prescription or over-the-counter (OTC), because of concerns I have about federal oversight of generic drug manufacturers. However. . .
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Category: Pharmaceuticals
Commenters from AllThingsMuscle tell me that it's "testosterone replacement therapy," not bodybuilding.
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Category: Advertising
A very funny reader clues me in to the use of social media in pharmaceutical marketing. I know I'm not Brooke Shields but do my eyelashes really look that bad?
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Category: Pharmaceuticals
"I don't think anyone taking asthma medication is going to throw or run any better; I think they're doing it because they can't breathe."
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Category: Pharmaceuticals
Yes, pharma/biotech industry scientists could be doing a better job communicating to the public as well.
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Category: The Working Scientist
For those new readers with an interest in pharmaceuticals, be sure to bookmark Derek Lowe's In The Pipeline.
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Category: Alternative medicine
The late pop icon now appears to have requested a common, normally-safe intravenous anesthetic drug employed daily in outpatient surgical procedures. While not a common drug of abuse, Diprivan (propofol) can provide euphoric and anti-anxiety effects. Most relevant to the Jackson case, it can cause a rare side effect called "propofol-infusion syndrome" characterized by potentially fatal disturbances to cardiac pacing and rhythm.
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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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Category: Personal
Reese Witherspoon is not my wife - but she will be Pharm Girl.
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Category: Advertising
Even at this incredibly slow time of the year for blog traffic, we hit about 250% of our average readership yesterday with search engines finding our post on Allergan's new eyelash enhancing cosmeceutical, Latisse. Lots of folks wanting to know...
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