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Camera screens can slash colon cancer deaths (Reuters)

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Reuters – Screening 55 to 64-year-olds with an examination of the lower colon and rectum using a small camera can cut death rates from colorectal cancer by 43 percent, according to British scientists.

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Polluting the Literature with PAINs

Monday, February 8th, 2010

There’s an article out from a group in Australia on the long-standing problem of “frequent hitter” compounds. Everyone who’s had to work with high-throughput screening data has had to think about this issue, because it’s clear that some compounds are nothing but trouble.

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GSK: Please Invite Me to the Sundance Panel & Screening of Your New Alli Inspired Documentary Film

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

According to the New York Times , “GlaxoSmithKline is getting into the movie business, pursuing an unusual and most likely controversial strategy to increase interest in a weight-loss drug.” That drug, of course, is alli. “Glaxo, the pharmaceutical giant behind Alli, an over-the-counter weight-loss product, has decided that a good way to educate Americans about obesity — and increase sales of Alli — is to finance a “hard-hitting” documentary about eating” (see ” Alli Marketer (GSK) To Produce Documentary Film on Eating “).