/oss/taxonomy/term/6215/all en /oss/article/medical-critical-thinking/skeletons-closet <p>Dr. David Franklin’s conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD in microbiology and three years of research experience at the prestigious Dana Farber Cancer Institute, he felt ready to take on the challenge of acting as a “medical liaison” with physicians. He would not be a drug salesman, the company told him, but would answer physicians’ questions about medications so that they could practice the best medicine that science allowed.</p> Wed, 03 Jan 2024 22:24:04 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9773 at /oss /oss/article/general-science/when-living-things-make-our-drugs-us <p>Could you recreate your favourite restaurant meal at home? Imagine the challenge of getting that meal to go and receiving no recipe, no ingredient list; just the final dish that you get to taste, study, and reverse-engineer. What are its ingredients? How do you cook them? What’s in the sauce? Which fat did they use? Is there MSG in there to enhance the umami flavour?</p> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:36:41 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9091 at /oss