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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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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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Category: Pharmaceuticals
Allergan played by the rules but the backstory here is one that feeds conspiracy mongers that the FDA is "in bed" with the pharmaceutical companies.
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Category: Pharmaceuticals
The Japanese scientist who grew fascinated by fungi as a boy is one among five of this years' recipients of a Lasker Award. Endo was specifically given the Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. Dr Akira Endo first isolated the hypocholesterolemic...
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