Hands On: Defeat Your Enemies From the Inside In Warp
Why blow people up from the outside, when doing it from the inside makes way more of a mess?
That’s the philosophy of the little bundle of joy you play as in Warp, a downloadable game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC coming from Electronic Arts this winter and on display at Penny Arcade Expo this weekend in Seattle. He’s an alien who’s been kidnapped by a group of scientists, and he decides that he’s not going to be experimented upon. Instead, he se...
Hands On: Defeat Your Enemies From the Inside In Warp
Why blow people up from the outside, when doing it from the inside makes way more of a mess?
That’s the philosophy of the little bundle of joy you play as in Warp, a downloadable game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC coming from Electronic Arts this winter and on display at Penny Arcade Expo this weekend in Seattle. He’s an alien who’s been kidnapped by a group of scientists, and he decides that he’s not going to be experimented upon. Instead, he se...
Drug Shortages: Endangering Human Lives and Pets, Too
198.
That’s how many critically needed antibiotics, cancer drugs, diuretics, sedatives, stimulants and vaccines — among other drug categories — currently are in short supply in the United States. If you print out the list, which is maintained by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, it runs to seven pages.
Back in February, I wrote in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and also here at this blog, about ongoing shortages of critical drugs, and how physicians were beginning to worry about them. At the time, the list of drugs in short supply was up to about 140.
I assumed the problem...