Category Archives: Public Health
New blog home, same old story: dietary supplement adulteration with prescription drugs
If you are new to this blog, you should know that our laboratory and collaborators work on all aspects of physiologically-active compounds from natural sources – plants, fungi, bacteria, marine organisms, etc. So, I am equally interested in prescription drugs and herbal or non-botanical dietary supplements. There are still some products on the shelves of […]
PepsiCo Food Frontiers blog did not have to be a #SbFAIL
I’m still not sure that a PepsiCo blog could have been acceptably hosted anywhere here at ScienceBlogs. But had it been approached by seeking the professional expertise of bloggers and the tapping into community discussions that once existed at this network, we could have saved management from themselves.
You reap what you sow.
PepsiCo blog, Food Frontiers, is an affront to those who built the reputation of ScienceBlogs
Regardless of the content that will appear at the PepsiCo-sponsored blog, ScienceBlogs has just hammered many nails into the coffin of its reputation and made itself the topic of journalistic breach of ethics for the entire blogosphere and in J-school classroom discussions next semester. Idiotic, embarrassing, and disrespectful of the bloggers who have built ScienceBlogs readership over the last four-and-a-half years.
HBCU medical schools at Morehouse, Meharry, and Howard lead “social mission” metric – Annals of Internal Medicine
Have you ever seen Duke, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins at the bottom of any ranking?
Boy howdy! We’ve hooked Superbug’s Maryn McKenna!
A warm-welcome to yet another top-tier science writer, this time in the area of infectious diseases and food safety.
GAO report on dietary supplement flaws released today in Senate hearing
More hearings, more heavy metal contamination, more than likely: no real action.
Agility of the community college system in preparing for BP oil spill landfall
Key West Community College demonstrates an important purpose of a strong, geographically-diverse community education system.
Tragic H1N1 death of University of North Carolina freshman: get your vaccine now
Being a collegiate freshman with access to world-class health care does not alone confer immunity
How to report in vitro cancer studies: maitake mushroom extract doesn’t “fight cancer”
NEWSFLASH: News outlets overinterpret in vitro anticancer studies of mushroom extract. But the real story is how NHS Choices took it apart and took the Daily Express to task.
The new NHS sexual health hub: Could you imagine this happening in the US?
Sex for socialists?
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