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Month: December 2022

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Risky Business

Today, the FDA announced that Lupin Pharmaceuticals has recalled four lots of their “Quinapril” blood pressure medication.  According to the press release, the affected batches contained too much of an impurity called “N-Notroso-Quinapril”. The problem is that, taken over a long period of time, that impurity may increase the risk

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Traffic Flaws

There was a study published recently in The Journal of American Medicine titled “COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and the Risk of a Traffic Crash”.  The study, performed by a group of Canadian researchers, compared traffic accidents experienced by people who had been given a COVID-19 vacksination and those who hadn’t. I

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Bushwhacked

There’s a riverbed about a mile from my house.  I say “riverbed” and not “river” because it rarely has any water in it.  This is southern California, and we get rain like twice a year.  So, the riverbed isn’t filled with water.  It’s filled with homeless people.  About four years

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