RRx-001 and FDA Fast Track

RRx-001 and FDA Fast Track

The big news at EpicentRx last week is that its lead small molecule, RRx-001, received Fast Track designation for the prevention/amelioration of severe oral mucositis (SOM). What is oral mucositis, how does RRx-001 prevent/ameliorate it, and why is this big news?...
Noice or Not Noice

Noice or Not Noice

From https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-an-Australian-Accent Noice is the Australization of the word that the rest of the English-speaking world pronounces (more or less) as “nice”. See previous blog post entitled, “How (Not) to Speak Australian” for a link to a...
Pseudoscience: Don’t Get Fooled Again

Pseudoscience: Don’t Get Fooled Again

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage”. This is from Mark Russell, the famous satirist and “scientific” theorist.  Another theory, ours, is that Jupiter, the ‘romantic’ gravitational ‘partner’ of...