Pharmacology Carnival
Check out the sixteenth carnival on drugs and pharmacology at Brainblogger, which includes a Bioblog post, “Bring on the free radicals!”
Archive for June, 2009
At least now it’s official
Say it ain’t so! The Senate is actually pointing out that insurance companies have been screwing us for a long time. Obviously this is not news to anyone who has been to the doctor for more than a pap smear. The question remains, which to my knowledge no one has bothered to attempt to answer: [...]
A cash crop of insanity
The United States of America is truly an amazing place. Where else in the world would something like $25 billion be spent yearly to cultivate widely a crop that immediately after harvest is thrown directly into a landfill? A crop whose intensive and energetic cultivation is burning up our finite oil reserves, producing prodigious amounts [...]
Don’t take multivitamins during chemotherapy
Because the interaction between multivitamins including antioxidants with chemotherapy drugs are unknown, but supplements can have unintended negative effects, probably the best strategy is to avoid supplements and instead focus on a healthy diet.
There is no cure
Why has the word “cure” continued to be bandied about when it comes to cancer? It leaves the general impression that even though we know there are different types of cancer, they are all united by a grand mechanism and once we unlock the key to that mechanism, our troubles will be over. But the [...]
Order, design, tension, balance, and harmony
In “Sunday in the Park with George,” the 1984 broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book) explore the meaning and process of art. They really produced two different plays about art, each exploring different aspects of the creation of art, but with the theme running through both of the problem artists [...]
