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Tragic H1N1 death of University of North Carolina freshman: get your vaccine now
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on December 17, 2009 If you think that the H1N1 pandemic is slowing down and have grown complacent with vaccination now that vaccines are more widely available, please learn something from last night’s tragic loss of local college student from Rhode Island, Lillian Chason: A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, who friends said was battling complications…
Quackwatch founder Stephen Barrett takes on health care reform myths
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on September 7, 2009 . . . or as Dr Barrett refers to it more accurately, Insurance Reform. On Friday, Sarah Avery of the News & Observer reported on her interview with the now-retired Pennsylvania psychiatrist who started the Quackwatch.com website in 1996 following years of investigating fraudulent health practices. From the Quackwatch Mission Statement: Quackwatch is now an…
Tancredo Protest at UNC; Denver Schooling on Scriptures
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on April 15, 2009 Serendipity. Me and Tancredo, of all people. Start here: The press has been buzzing today about former Colorado congressman and US presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo, having to cut a speech short yesterday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill due to protesters on his stance toward illegal/unauthorized immigration to the US. With regard…
Congratulations to the UNC Tar Heels
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on April 7, 2009 Great timelapse video of the crowd converging on Franklin St at Columbia just below the Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery and the evolution of the bonfires that I still just do not understand. But the best part of yesterday’s game for me was reading Ed Brayton’s recollections of his connections to the 30th…
Welcome Sarah Avery and the News & Observer Science and Medicine Blog!
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on February 3, 2009 Following on the heels of the ScienceOnline’09 conference, I was delighted to learn this morning that our local fishwrapper has launched its own Science and Medicine blog. Led by N&O science editor, Sarah Avery, the Science and Medicine blog will expand upon the surprisingly sparse coverage of one of the most scientifically dense areas of…