My voice has been absent from the blogosphere. . .
Category: LungMutiny2010
Another gift of LungMutiny2010 has been the temporary loss of my voice secondary to inhaled corticosteroids.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of David J Kroll, a US state university educator and cancer researcher who holds a PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and BS in Toxicology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, issues of under-represented groups in the STEMM disciplines, science and medical journalism, the science and culture of North Carolina, Florida, and Colorado, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.
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Category: LungMutiny2010
Another gift of LungMutiny2010 has been the temporary loss of my voice secondary to inhaled corticosteroids.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
It is rare for a scientist to discover one drug that makes it to market. Sir James not only led the discovery of two major drugs, propranolol and cimetidine. As if that were not enough, each drug was a "first-in-class" agent, the first approved drug that acts via a novel mechanism of action.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chronic Illness
Another public health benefit of studying drugs of abuse. You just never know where new drugs will come from.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:21 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Botanical/Herbal Medicines
A follow-on discussion of Pfizer's rejected patent claim and some molecular modeling thanks to valued readers, daedalus4u and Prof Ian Musgrave, respectively. You know, science blogging is cool.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:03 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pharmaceutical Law
Horny goat weed is far from stiff competition for a prescription PDE5 inhibitor like sildenafil (Viagra).
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:02 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cancer
A physician's claim that "between 100 and 1,000 times more men than women" are on the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole raises questions behind a worldwide shortage of the drug. Are testosterone-deficient men in effect killing women with breast cancer?
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Category: Biotechnology
Referring to clinical drug resistance or refractoriness to therapy as "the patient failed the treatment" is pissing me off this morning before I have my coffee.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The American Southwest
The suitcase full of supplements and prescription drugs seized in the execution of a search warrant for James Arthur Ray's Arizona retreat hotel room provides a learning opportunity in endocrine pharmacology and drug prescribing for off-label uses.
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Category: Infectious diseases
Denise Gellene in the New York Times is reporting this morning that Scottish physician, Sir John Crofton, passed away on 3 November at age 97. Crofton is best known for implementing a combination drug regimen to treat tuberculosis, the insidious...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:40 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Advertising
I never knew that Brooke Shields suffered from hypotrichosis.
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