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Hawaii Country Club members warned not to drink the water
The Hawaii Country Club continues to warn customers not to drink the water at the Kunia golf course until a filtration system is approved by the state Department of Health.
Wyeth Faces $64M Fine For Exporting Waste
Last month, we wrote that Pfizer’s Wyeth unit pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to four counts of illegally exporting waste water from its plant in Newbridge, Ireland, where contraceptive pills were made, to Holland several years ago.
BP Puts New Cap on Gulf Oil Well Leak
BP robots attached a new, tighter-fitting cap on top of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak Monday, raising hopes that the crude could be kept from polluting the water for the first time in nearly three months.
Customer Service Lessons from “Kitchen Little”
I got a real education in customer service from a teeny little breakfast joint in Mystic, CT called “ Kitchen Little “.
Read the full storyHow Can J&J Recover From The Recall Scandal?
Over the past five months, the Johnson & Johnson name has become synonymous with quality control problems, thanks to successive recalls of millions of over-the-counter products, many of which were for children, that smelled musty or contained too much active ingredient. The episode has blossomed into a full-blown scandal as the FDA mulls a criminal investigation, a Congressional committee threatens to issue a subpoena for documents and news that hired contractors sent employees to pose as consumers to buy Motrin bottles rather than issue a recall ( see this )
Wyeth, Exported Waste And Infertile Pigs
Here’s a tale that may make you squeal.
Read the full storyThe Power of Photons, You Say?
A longtime reader sends me word of a new company out in La Jolla, Nativis Pharmaceuticals, whose technology is most certainly eyebrow-raising. I think that the only way that I can do it justice is to quote directly from their web site ; I wouldn’t want to get anything wrong: Nativis has developed and patented a breakthrough technology that captures the unique photon field (signal) of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), or drugs. .
Drug companies and FDA should not intervene in social media conversations
There is no way that the FDA or the drug industry can monitor social media to determine what is accurate and what is not accurate nor should they. Would you want a third person in the middle of every conversation you have correcting your misinformation ? That would make for an interesting cocktail party for sure.
Read the full storyWhy You Don’t Want to Make Death-Star-Sized Drugs
I was just talking about greasy compounds the other day, and reasons to avoid them. Right on cue, there’s a review article in Expert Opinion in Drug Discovery on lipophilicity
Calorimetry: What Say You?
I’ve been involved in a mailing list discussion that I wanted to open up to a wider audience in drug discovery, so here goes. We spend our time (well, a lot of it, when we’re not filling out forms) trying to get compound to bind well to our targets





