In his now-famous New York Times magazine piece, Michael Pollan told us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” What is often forgotten is that this was not a prescription for eating as much as it was an admonition against “nutritionism”, the idea that foods are nothing more than a vehicle for the delivery [...]
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September 5th, 2010Virginia’s War on Academic Freedom
September 5th, 2010The attorney general of Virginia sued his own state University in an attempt to quash science on global warming.
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Dendreon Gets Some Respect
September 2nd, 2010Pivotal Provenge results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Sanofi CEO Talks Merger Philosophy
September 2nd, 2010Christopher Viehbacher talks about mergers in general, while declining to discuss the one everyone wants to know about.
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Scientists build a better salmon
September 2nd, 2010Salmon may soon be the first genetically modified animal to hit our dinner plates. We’ve been eating GMO foods for years, mostly without noticing it, but until now all the genetically modified organisms have been plants.
The new salmon was developed by AquaBounty Technologies, a company in Massachusetts, and hereâ•’s how it works: start with Atlantic [...]
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Pharma Stories You May Have Missed
September 2nd, 2010A roundup of relevant posts from other blogs.
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Vitamin D: Still More Questions Than Answers
September 2nd, 2010While we can draw some pretty safe conclusions about the prevention and treatment of some common bone diseases, it is too early to form any useful conclusions about other diseases such as cancer, influenza, or multiple sclerosis.
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Acupuncture Infiltrates the University of Maryland and NEJM
September 2nd, 2010A New England Journal of Medicine Article Promotes Pseudoscience
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The Sad Truth About $100,000 Cancer Drugs
August 23rd, 2010An important New Yorker story focuses on the unfortunate reality of rare, expensive treatments: they fail most of the time.
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Dendreon Gets Some Respect
August 23rd, 2010Pivotal Provenge results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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