therapeutics pharmacology

What: The comment I heard, I wish I could remember the site was than Avastin was like taking the knives away form the criminals, so they went out and got guns. It may make cancer cells more virulent.

Writer: LucretiaGermanica

LCC: RM

Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Aug 20 2009 10:55 AM

What: "Early-stage is a democracy; late-stage is a terror. More often than not in late stages, we didn't understand the disease as well as we thought we did," Turner said. "So you have to have size, I think, to buffer against those late-stage shocks."

Writer: Ransdell Pierson

LCC: RM

Where:

Date: Sep 23 2009 11:53 PM

What: "Avastin is like the Wright brothers' aircraft - the first evidence of the feasibility of an idea that not everyone believed in, certainly not after all the failures," says Tiltan Pharma CEO Yigal Stav."

Writer: Gali Weinreb

LCC: RM

Where:

Date: May 2 2010 9:13 AM

What: "In my day as a rider we had dope, sure; but it was nothing like today. Nothing like EPO. For the riders EPO is like kerosene," said then Tour de France director Jean-Marie Le Blanc in 1999.---> This page is a review of the use of drugs in cycling. I want to push the analogy. EPO is more like the octane booster you put in your car to improve its performance. EPO increases an athletes oxygen carrying capacity and thus improves performance dramatically in situations in which an athlete needs a high oxygen capacity,such as riding a bicycle up a mountain. The drug was developed for people who had chronic anemia due to illness. It was co-opted by athletes to improve their endurance.

Writer: Jean-Marie Le Blanc

LCC: RM

Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Oct 25 2010 2:38 AM

What: "pharma is like a big ship trying to turn around in a small river". ..The link is a discussion about all the changes in pharma marketing in the past couple years.

Writer: Rich

LCC: RM

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Date: Feb 3 2011 3:00 AM

What: "Vaccination is like a dress rehearsal for your immune system so it is prepared for the 'real show'."

Writer: Not Stated

LCC: RM

Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Dec 6 2012 11:29 AM

What: "Imagine that the antibiotic is like some alien race that comes to Earth and kills everyone who's 5-foot-10 or shorter," says Heseltine. "What you have left over is a bunch of big, angry people who reproduce and create even more big, angry people."

Writer: Dr. David Pegues

LCC: RM

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Date: Jul 18 2011 12:26 AM

What: "Two shots because Rocephin, in addition to being a powerful broad-spectrum antibiotic, is like peanut butter and they have to mix it with a numbing agent to make it tolerable" I assuming she's talking about a poorly soluble drug. Some molecules are like peanut butter; they are poorly soluble in water and need to be emulsified to work effectively. Think mayonnaise or italian dressing as common emulsions.

Writer: Mindi

LCC: RM

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Date: Jul 18 2011 12:34 AM

What: 'For example, saying that "getting a vaccination is like installing anti-virus software" may have meaning to someone familiar with computers. But if the person prefers camping to computing, you might say instead that "getting a vaccine is like putting on bug spray before going out in the woods."'

Writer: Helen Osborne, MEd,

LCC: RM

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Date: Dec 6 2012 11:36 AM