The 10 Weirdest Drug Stories of the Month
Antibiotic polar bear poop! "Boar taint"! Nicorette robbers! It all happened in January 2010:
- AstraZeneca, Sanofi-Aventis eye polar bear droppings for new antibiotics Another reason why it's bad to let species go extinct -- bear poop might contain cure for MRSA superbug.
- Smoke - you get sick! Don't smoke - you get sick quicker! "Smoking increases the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, and the longer one smokes, the greater the risk; but smokers who quit may be raising their short-term risk of developing diabetes even higher," says dismal new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
- 5 hospitals agree to stop flushing pharmaceutical waste into New York's drinking water supply Er ... thanks?
- Jenna Fischer, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne to shill Proactiv Because until now all three were horribly underexposed in the media.
- Heist at GSK nets Tums, Sensodyne, Aquafresh and Nicorette Cops on lookout for white-toothed suspects hiding out in Indian restaurants that no longer allow smoking.
- Pfizer's Kindler haunted by Exubera, Torcetrapib "Because my little saying around the company is that for every Lipitor problem there's a torcetrapib solution," says CEO Jeff.
- J&J heiress who killed self with Rx meds made sex tape; Tila Tequila seeks custody of her daughter I don't remember seeing anything about this in the Credo.
- Online Levitra ad links to Native American historian Thousands mistakenly think Sioun people expert Bev Stayart can get their mojo working again.
- Novartis targeting 3-foot long gutworm Guinea worm disease: Your days are numbered!
- Brits don't want to eat Pfizer's pig castration drug But it stops the taste of "boar taint"! (And people ask me why I'm a vegetarian.)
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