"I do however actively refuse drugs that have recently been introduced to the market."

Crystal, I respect your opinion and freedom of choice on this matter but I find it hard to understand your reasoning behind the above statement? Why boycott recent drugs when all drugs have been tested on animals at some stage of development? If anything, newer drugs probably involve less animal work that older drugs did thanks to the influence of technology (computer modelling of likely target molecules, cell culture, in vitro-in vivo correlation work, clinical trial simulation etc.).

If it's any comfort, your GP will very likely offer you older drugs as a first line therapy anyway as they will be off patent and hence available as a cheap generic version. :o)

I'm the same DanB. I just say pharmacology - like genetics most people have at least heard of that! ;o)

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typo: 'conscience' should have been 'conscious'!

Some people were a bit unnerved when they realised that posts from this forum appeared on Google searches if the right key words were used. People were worried that if they had revealed too much information (thesis topic, uni etc) they might be identifiable, which they wouldn't want if they'd been slagging off their supervisors in other threads! So that's possibly why people haven't been posting on this thread.

Ohhh I really do sympathise! I had a truly terrible hair cut when I was 12 and cried all weekend thinking about having to go to school on the Monday...and when I got to school, yes, it was school photo day!

You'll be ok, I bet it doesn't look half as bad as you think, it's just because you are so conscience of it at the moment.

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Poor you, we've all been there at one time. The first week is the worst, it will soon grow and I bet everyone else will think it's fine anyway. At least it's winter and you can wear a hat. My worst ever too-short hair cut was in the height of summer...never had a short hair style since.

Fingers crossed for the abstract acceptance. I hope they won't reject you for being 17 mins late!

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How's it going?

It's ok, I know it's tough. I had to do my last abstract in a bit of a hurry and after submitting realised I had not added a legend to my figure, doh!

Relax, you've got over an hour, that's not even cutting it fine! ;o)

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