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Learning physiology by looking at the poisons that shut it down

Enlarge (credit: Adam Gault ) Neil Bradbury is a physiology professor whose first book, A Taste for Poison , uses tales of poisons and poisoners as a means to explain physiological processes by describing how each poison disrupts them. The grisly episodes are like the particular proverbial spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go […]

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Tiger King’s Jeff Lowe Hospitalized For Mysterious Stroke — And His Wife Suspects Poison!

It’s been a while since we had to think about the Tiger King gang. Just last week was the one year anniversary of Tiger King hitting Netflix. The show was a complete phenomenon, the first real “quarantine binge” of the coronavirus lockdown. People were dressing up like Joe Exotic and the other eccentric subjects of […]

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Do Not Attempt this at home: George’s Marvelous Medicine is Very toxic

Expand / / The mixture comprised in Road Dahl’s 1981 children’s novel, George’s Marvelous Medicinethat may be detrimental –even deadly –to grandmas{} BMJ research finds. (charge: YouTube/Storyvision Studios UK) Famous children’s writer Roald Dahl heavily admired physicians who pioneered new medications, as well as committed his 1981 novel, George’s Marvelous Medicine–where a young boy pops […]