WTF!?!?!?
December 12, 2008
Didn’t we just discuss some directive from NIH that is supposed to discourage newly independent investigators from applying for R03 and R21 awards, and to focus on R01s? Well, check this motherfucking shit out:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-09-021.html
NIDA’s got a special R03 program solely for newly independent investigators with a max of $25,000 directs per motherfucking YEAR! And the application’s 10 motherfucking pages. Are these NIDA motherfuckers smoking the government ditchweed!?!?!?
Repost: Musty Must-Read: "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
December 12, 2008
I originally posted this Jan 09, 2008 on the old blog (this version has been lightly improved from the prior version). It has been one of my more popular posts when it comes to Google hits.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began sending warning letters to sellers of so called “bio-identical hormone replacement therapy” today according to an AP report. Apparently the claims for alleviating menopausal symptoms are
not supported by medical evidence and are considered false and misleading.
Needless to say, these “compounded” products are being sold without FDA approval. It’s all a conspiracy man! Dang FDA is a tool of BigPharma trying to keep cheap and effective remedies from the public. Noted tool of TheMan(BigPharmaDivision) Abel Pharmboy has a recent post in which he touches on “cosmeceutical” marketing of drugs and the FDA’s authority to regulate cosmetics under
their regulatory authority is in part ordered by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (and subsequent legislation).
source
This reminds me of the glory days of the quack remedy / patent medicine era and today, from the mouldering archives, we take up a Case Report published by A. B. Hirsch, M.D. [“Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. American Medical Journal, 1884, 12(11):504-506] which is available from Google Books here. A footnote indicates that this Abstract was read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society on Sept 17, 1884. Ahh, Mrs. Winslow’s . Used for over 60 years by mothers for their teething children.
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December 12, 2008
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