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Monthly Archives: January 2005
ADR Study Day
28-Jan-05Holocaust Memorial Day
27-Jan-05Orac, a cancer surgeon in the US, meditates on Holocaust Memorial Day:
So, today, as memorials to the murdered are held and speeches made, I urge everyone to take a moment and reflect upon the evil that humans are capable of. But, more importantly, reflect upon what each of us might do to prevent it from [...]
Classic crank emails
26-Jan-05I’ve had a few crank emails from “true believers” of the autism-MMR (non-)link, but Brian Deer’s email correspondance and phone calls with Dr Carol Stott are fantastic examples of the genre. Even more so, given that this women was employed by Cambridge University at the time.
Baghdad burning
25-Jan-05My weapons of mass destruction page is going to feature in a forthcoming book based by an Iraqi woman who calls herself Riverbend. The book will be called Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq.
Lesbians on Mars
25-Jan-05In the future young lesbians, with masculine hands, will be planting the Stars and Stripes on the red planet. In announcing his intentions for the US to return to the moon, and using that as a spring board for an eventual journey to Mars, George Bush unwittingly struck a blow for lesbians.
Strategies for buying condoms
25-Jan-05In the distant past I used to manage a retail pharmacy. One of my pet hobbies was analysing the various strategies employed to purchase packets of condoms; a socially responsible activity that no-one should be ashamed of.
Would the customer bury them at the bottom of a pile of allsorted hairbrushes and toilet [...]
I’m in the most recent Pharmaceutical Journal, who give my opinion on the news that data from The Yellow Card scheme will be opened up to independent researchers and that patients can now report adverse drug reactions directly to the MHRA.
Anthony Cox, adverse drug reaction pharmacist at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, said: [...]
Kim Jong Il and the Medical Stone
24-Jan-05Semi-skimmed has more on the amazing medical developments in North Korea. Last time it was medical paint, this time it is the amazing medical stone!
This is all superficially funny stuff. However, quackery is scary enough when it is bought into by the post-modern middle classes of the West, but it is infinitely more [...]
Splitting hairs
24-Jan-05“They tried to split hairs, but their hairs were not from my fur.”
Dr. Widukind Lenz describing the experience of being under cross examination from the company who produced thalidomide, Chemie Gruenenthal.
Via The Pharmacovigilance Timeline.