Drug Cocktail October 2nd, 2001 @ 9:34 am PDT
I have a little drug cocktail now. It’s a combination of Flonase, Allegra, and the generic version of something called Duratuss. There’s no generic version of Allegra or Flonase, so it costs about $50 (after insurance) for the three for about a two-month supply. But it’s wonderful. Pharmaceuticals rock my world. I can – for […]
No More Periods, Period? July 30th, 2001 @ 5:48 pm PDT
Wired.com reports: “A new drug being developed would eliminate menstruation altogether, while still allowing women to get pregnant. Another drug would eliminate both periods and pregnancy.” [link via Swallowing Tacks]
Johns Hopkins July 20th, 2001 @ 2:44 pm PDT
U.S. Suspends Human Research at Johns Hopkins After a Death The volunteer, Ellen Roche, died on June 2, a month after she inhaled an unapproved drug as part of a research study to examine the causes of asthma. Her lungs were destroyed, apparently by the chemical she inhaled, hexamethonium. She was 24 and a technician […]
Eat All You Want, Still Shed Pounds! March 29th, 2001 @ 3:34 pm PDT
Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that if an enzyme called acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2, or ACC2, is blocked in mice, the animals can eat much more food than other mice and still weigh 10 percent to 15 percent less. The researchers said their findings could pave the way for the development of […]
Computer-mad Generation Has a Memory Crash February 7th, 2001 @ 8:18 am PDT
“It’s a type of brain dysfunction,” said Toshiyuki Sawaguchi, the university’s professor of neurobiology. “Young people today are becoming stupid.” And … in a completely unrelated story … Doctors amputate first human hand transplant: Hallam said for the first year, the right hand – which had belonged to a French motorcyclist killed in an accident […]
mini-camera for surgery May 31st, 2000 @ 5:28 am PDT
“The small intestine is a tube, so it really doesn’t matter which way the capsule is pointing.”
India April 20th, 2000 @ 9:21 am PDT
Sylvia sends this news from India:Today we went to a local children’s hospital. It was pretty incredible. We saw pathology that we had only read about in our textbooks … Congenital Rubella, neonatal tetanus, tubercular meningitis, amoebic liver abscess, polio … Unfortunately we did not get to visit the OB/Gyn deptartment because, ya know, India’s […]
