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The person perhaps most deserving of the famous epithet “mad, bad, and dang... Aug 21, 2024 Underconsumption Core The latest craze on TikTok with over 31M views is called #underconsumptioncore. This long and unwiel... Aug 20, 2024 Act Your Age! Act your age, young people, and don’t grow up so fast! According to research presented at the Americ... Aug 19, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Weak (WOW): l’ esprit de l’escalier “It’s not too late to learn about the definition of l’esprit de l’escalier.” l’esprit de l’escalier ... Aug 16, 2024 ICI Hot A long-range forecast from the Climate Prediction Center favors warmer-than-average weather beginnin... Aug 15, 2024 Elevator Pitches Going up? Not if Will Ferrell’s, Buddy the Elf, was on the elevator with you. LOL! Love that scene. ... Aug 14, 2024 Pharmaceutical Breaking Not to be confused with the newly minted Olympic sport of breaking, which featured the instantly mem... Aug 13, 2024 InferNO Per tradition, the Olympic cauldron burns for the duration of the Games until the Closing Ceremony w... Aug 12, 2024 EpicentRx Words of the Week (WOW): Apodictic “An apodictic statement is incontrovertible.” Apodictic Definition (adjective): incontrovertible, ir... Aug 9, 2024 The Torchbearer With the 2024 Olympics now in full swing, we thought to recognize lead EpicentRx therapy, and torchb... Aug 8, 2024 Wisdumb and Wisdumber Jerry Seinfeld recently declared that comedy is dead. Is he right? Maybe. But, hey, why let that sto... Aug 6, 2024 Mad, Chad, and Dangerous To Know On the heels of a previous post entitled “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know”, which was Lady Carolyn L... Aug 5, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Callow “If a prequel to Shallow Hal were ever made, when the actor was young and immature, it could be call... Aug 2, 2024 Adpocalypse Now The end, the cataclysmic end, is near (or nigh to use the Biblical term). Extinction—nay, extermina... 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Jul 22, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Ecumenical “For a universal definition of ecumenical read below.” Ecumenical Definition (adjective): 1) general... Jul 18, 2024 A Blog About Smog Los Angeles. City of Angels…and smog. In LA, famous for its smog as much as its celebrities and palm... Jul 17, 2024 IO, IO, It’s Off To Work We Go The IO from the title stands for immune-oncology. This term, IO, refers to therapies that mobilize t... Jul 16, 2024 A Blawg About a Dawg Why is the word “blog” spelled like “blawg” in the title? For the Aw! factor. Dogs, or rather, dawgs... Jul 15, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Longueur “Hopefully this post is short enough not to contain longueurs.” Longueur Definition (noun): a long, ... Jul 12, 2024 Divert Shields! The following is excerpted from a WebEx that EpicentRx gave in January. “Divert shields!” is a commo... Jul 11, 2024 TGF-β Mayhem Move over, Dean Winters, the good actor who plays the part of the disaster-prone Mayhem mascot in th... Jul 10, 2024 TGF-β, the Architect of Disaster The most heavily fortified and militarized border in the world isn’t the one between North and South... Jul 9, 2024 Magic 8 Ball, Marijuana Use, and Head and Neck Cancer We asked the all-knowing, all-seeing Magic 8-ball – you know the plastic sphere shaped like an... Jul 8, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Meek (WOM): Longanimity “Be patient with this definition of longanimity.” Longanimity Definition (noun): patient forbearance... Jul 3, 2024 How To Curse Like An Oncologist Swear like a sailor, a stevedore, a fishmonger, a termagant, or a trooper? If you must. After all, a... Jul 2, 2024 Enter the Epicenter Along with “Remission Possible,” one of the new taglines on the redesigned EpicentRx website is “Ent... Jul 1, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Eristic “There’s no controversy about the definition of eristic.” Eristic Definition (adjective): pertaining... Jun 28, 2024 The Write Stuff Blogitamus, ergo sumus. We blog; therefore, we are. Or blogitamus, ergo hummus. We blog; therefore, ... Jun 27, 2024 The Eye of Sauron? For those who think that the beloved Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy by JRR Tolkien is a work of pu... Jun 26, 2024 We Spy with Our Imaging Eye Show of hands, who remembers the children’s game, I Spy? (Time for an obligatory ‘80s reference: Any... Jun 25, 2024 Sun’s Out Guns Out Summer is officially here, and so is the gun show. Not talking about Sean Astin, who plays Drew Barr... Jun 24, 2024 Cold As Ice A fantastic, and seriously catchy song from ‘80s British-American rock supergroup Foreigner is, R... Jun 24, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Hebdomadal “Hebdomadal is a literal word of the week.” Hebdomadal Definition... Jun 21, 2024 Fahrenheit 104.51 The esteemed science fiction author, Ray Bradbury, who died in 2012, claimed, perhaps erroneously, a... Jun 20, 2024 But Wait, There’s More! On a crossword puzzle, we came across this 5-letter clue: “But wait! There’s more!” The answer... Jun 18, 2024 KEVLARx: Hit Me With Your Best Shot We have officially designated Pat Benatar’s 1980s take-no-prisoners smash single Hit Me With Your Be... Jun 17, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Weak (WOW): Epicene “We’re neutral about the word epicene.” Epicene Definition (adjective): 1) weak, flaccid... Jun 14, 2024 Mad, Dad, and Dangerous To Know This is the third post we’ve written that riffs on Lady Carolyn Lamb’s awesome, reputation-defining ... Jun 13, 2024 Mr. Best One of the most successful YouTube icons or self-styled “influencers” of all time is Jimmy Donaldson... Jun 13, 2024 Flood-gates We live not in an age of walls but of gates. Ever since the “Watergate” break-in over 50 years ago, ... Jun 12, 2024 Pink Stripes After writing one of our absolute favorite blog posts (here), on Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert K... Jun 11, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Weak (WOW): Effete “The thrill of victory, the agony of effete.” Effete Definition (adjective): 1) degenera... Jun 10, 2024 Fox News You’re entering the Spin City Zone! We wish accomplished actor, caring philanthropist, and genuine i... Jun 7, 2024 The Pecking Order of TGF-β How unintentionally ironic that the phrase “winner, winner, chicken dinner!” is used to celebrate a ... Jun 6, 2024 The Number One Impersonator Maybe the second-best impersonator that we’ve ever seen is Frank Caliendo, who sounds like a dead ri... Jun 5, 2024 The Rainmaker The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a rainmaker as 1. “a person who produces or attempts t... Jun 4, 2024 Mostly Single and Ready to Mingle At #BIO2024, the Pharmaceutical Industry’s answer to speed dating, EpicentRx declares its relationsh... 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May 28, 2024 EpicentRx Phrase of the Week: Disruptive Innovation “Innovaaaation is making us great.” Sung to the tune of the Heinz “Anticipaaaation” ketchup co... May 24, 2024 Dr. Anthony P. Conley To Give Prestigious Oral Presentation on AdAPT-001 at ASCO 2024 Just exactly how prestigious is it to be selected for an Oral Presentation at the American Society f... May 22, 2024 Brady or Belichick? It is a question for the ages – and a long-running debate, which we hope to settle once and fo... May 21, 2024 It’s Hip To Be Square Chemical rings come in several different shapes. Triangle-shaped 3-membered rings like cyclopropane.... May 20, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Munchausen “Munchausen puts the “con” in hypochondria.” Munchausen’s Syndrome noun moon-chau-zn sihn-droo... May 17, 2024 ASCO and BIO 2024 Preview This preview is rated BD for Business Development. It’s almost showtime! The stage is set for the Ju... May 16, 2024 A Bug and A Drug If you, like Huey Lewis memorably sang in 1987, want a new drug… One that won’t make me ... May 15, 2024 “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know” So said Lady Carolyn Lamb about her lover, the Romantic poet, aristocrat, infamous lady killer, and ... May 14, 2024 You Can’t Teach An Old Dogma New Tricks Or can you? This phrase, which comes from the legendary writer, Dorothy Parker, best known for her w... May 13, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Diegesis “Is it called ‘indiegesistion’ when we hear upset stomach noises in a movie or on the TV... May 10, 2024 Bullet Blog #5: 4 Before and Then No More Celebrated American short-story writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe, famously wrote, “Quoth the Raven &... May 9, 2024 Bullet Blog #4: Fast Facts About Cisplatin First described by the Italian chemist Michele Peyrone in 1845, cisplatin is an alkylating agent tha... May 8, 2024 Bullet Blog #3: Fast Facts About Kevlar ® The Phase 2b clinical trial with RRx-001 (nibrozetone) against chemotherapy and radiation-induced se... May 7, 2024 Bullet Blog #2: Mouth or Mowth How do you spell mouth? As above, right? Yes, unless you develop severe oral mucositis (SOM) from th... May 6, 2024 Bullet Blog #1: Welcome Aboard the KEVLARx Bullet Train The KEVLARx Bullet Train has finally left the station. Tickets please. Final destination: head-and-n... May 6, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week (WOW): Distaff “Distaff? What about datstaff?” Distaff Definition (noun): a stick aroun... May 3, 2024 The KEVLARx Bullet Train All aboard the KEVLARx bullet train! Destination: head and neck cancer (HNC) without a stop, hopeful... May 3, 2024 A Blog About Blag A British slang word (you know how we absolutely love the Brits – that’s true AE), which may d... May 2, 2024 Nrf2 Herder Happy early “May the 4th Be With You” aka #StarWarsDay. If fans of Star Trek are called Trekkies, or... May 2, 2024 Danger Close In artillery and naval gunfire support, the term “danger close” indicates proximity to an intended t... Apr 30, 2024 Lyse! LICE! Ugh! #Gross! #Disgusting! #Horrible! Or, dare we say it, #lousy! For most parents a plague of ... Apr 29, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Retcon “Because the TV show, The Conners, retconned the past of the original show, Rosanne, so many times i... Apr 25, 2024 Rocky Road Most. Decadent. Ice. Cream. Ever. Rocky Road brings together the best of several worlds: creamy choc... Apr 24, 2024 Lost Time Is Never Found Again Poor Richard’s Almanac was an annual compendium of pithy proverbs and prognostications written and p... Apr 23, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Eustress “I stress. You stress. We all scream for eustress.” Eustress Definition ... Apr 22, 2024 Say Yes to Eustress “Wound up,” “stressed out,” “burned out,” “tied up in knots,” “on pins and needles,” “on eggshells,”... Apr 18, 2024 The Great Debate Here is our list for the top 10 Greatest Debates in history (feel free to weigh in): 1. Creation vs.... Apr 17, 2024 Hot or Not? From time to time in this space, we will apply the phrase “Hot or Not?” to tumors from cases that we... Apr 16, 2024 SARC: Defiance Through Alliance Not too long ago, we met Steve Young. Not the Steve Young, mind you, the Hall of Famer who qu... Apr 15, 2024 The Taxman Tax evasion is much in the news of late. Penalties for it are harsh and may include fines or, impris... Apr 15, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Nosism “Don’t turn up your nose at Nosism.” Nosism noun NO-siz-em Definition: to refer to oneself as ... Apr 12, 2024 En Fuego in San Diego At the AACR conference in San Diego, Drs. Tony Reid, CEO of EpicentRx, and Anthony P. Conley, a sarc... Apr 11, 2024 A Total Eclipse of the Heart Here is a cardiopharmaceutical take on the recent eclipse, which started in Mexico and moved northea... Apr 11, 2024 Mechanism X Factor Much ink/many electrons have been spilled to explain the admittedly complex mechanisms of action for... Apr 10, 2024 MMAdAPT-001 Modern day gladiators, the best mixed martial artists (MMAers) like Khabib Nurmagomedov, Jon Jones, ... Apr 9, 2024 Anti-Inflammaging: A Modern-Day Fountain of Youth By: Bryan Oronsky, Ahad Javansalehi “Who wants to live forever?” -Freddie Mercury Introduction A com... Apr 8, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Aesculapian “Aesculapian, heal thyself.” The caduceus (left) vs. the Rod of Aesculapius (right) Aesculapian adje... Apr 5, 2024 Care-ismatic If we were to describe Dr. Tony Reid, CEO, and founder of EpicentRx, whip-smart Professor Emeritus o... Apr 4, 2024 Nobody Does it Beta From the Spy who Loved me, Carly Simon sang what is, bar none, in our humble opinion, the greatest J... Apr 3, 2024 Way Faster and Much More Furious By the time you’ve read this sentence, we imagine that another Fast & Furious sequel starring Vi... Apr 2, 2024 Show and Tell One of the most earnestly endearing collection of essays ever written is entitled, “All I Really Nee... Apr 1, 2024 What a Joke! AdAPT-001 floats into a bar, encased in a cationic liposome, and orders a thimble of whisky, which i... Apr 1, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Quisling “What do you call a Panda that betrays its own kind?” “A Quis-Ling Ling”. “What did Beyo... Apr 1, 2024 EpicentRx To Attend the American Physiology Summit (APS) No per-APS about it. EpicentRx is a definite for the American Physiology Summit (APS) from April 4-7... Mar 28, 2024 X Marks the Not RRx-001 is a very versatile small molecule. Clinically, it is used as an anticancer, anti-mucositis,... Mar 27, 2024 Protect and Swerve “To Protect and to Serve” was the former motto of the Los Angeles Police Department. “To Protect and... Mar 26, 2024 Pop Goes the Bubble Pop. This is the sound of bubbles bursting throughout history. Tulipmania (1634-1638) in Holland. Po... Mar 25, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Forme Fruste “Below is a hopefully not incomplete definition of the term, forme fruste”. Forme Fruste noun fawm f... Mar 22, 2024 Face It – Part 1 The other day someone jokingly called EpicentRx a two-faced company – because we have 2 lead t... Mar 22, 2024 A Real Gem Pharmaceutical companies frequently boast about the “crown jewel(s)”, which refers to their most pri... Mar 21, 2024 The Big Bad Wolf of Treatment Related Toxicities Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Literally, everyone, especially when the Big Bad Wolf symbolizes t... Mar 20, 2024 Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? In case, like us, you happened to wake up one morning and randomly wonder who or what the timeless r... Mar 19, 2024 Zoom-itis As the COVID-19 threat seemingly fades, a new and much more insidious pandemic has arisen to take it... Mar 18, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Anfractuous Anfractuous adjective an-FRACK-choo-uhss Definition : twisty, winding, bendy, convoluted, tortuous. ... Mar 15, 2024 Blogging About Hogging Not to be pedantic or a “boar”, but in these weekly blog posts we practice nosism aka “we-ism”, whic... Mar 15, 2024 EpicentRx Hollywood Squares On a recent team-wide Zoom call, Meaghan Stirn, VP of Special Projects, which is a nefariously myste... Mar 14, 2024 Mostly Medical Knock Knock 1. Knock, knock Who’s there? W.H.O. Who’s W.H.O? The World Health Organization. 2. Knock, kno... Mar 13, 2024 TGF-β Gate In the wake of #KateGate, #Katespiracy, #FakeKate, and #WhereIsKate, owing to the mysterious monthsl... Mar 13, 2024 “The First Rule of Fight Club Is…” As any true fan of the Brad Pitt and Edward Norton movie based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the s... Mar 13, 2024 Team Possible In honor of International Women’s Day, which occurred last Friday March 8th, we recognize and applau... Mar 12, 2024 The Road House Rules of RRx-001 (Nibrozetone) and AdAPT-001 A remake of the 1989 unapologetically over-the-top cult classic, “Road House”, is set to drop on Ama... Mar 11, 2024 Ask EpicentRx™ “A real brew-haha”. Q: “I’ve been having trouble getting to sleep this week and getting up for work ... Mar 11, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Struwwelpeter “Struwweleinstein”. Strewwelpeter noun STROO-uhl-pee-tuhr Definition: : tousle-head Example sentence... Mar 8, 2024 Remission Possible Hello, dear reader. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to check out our new website de... Mar 8, 2024 DST-itis Get ready to spring forward – one day later. This year Daylight Saving Time (DST) returns on M... Mar 6, 2024 The Story Behind Cancer Awareness Ribbons The year was 1979. Jimmy Carter was president. Tensions ran high. Gasoline was in short supply. Cars... Mar 5, 2024 Neither Fish Nor Fowl An advocacy organization that we spoke to last month characterized themselves as “neither fish nor f... Mar 4, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Banausic “It is never banausic to read the Word of the Week”. Banausic adjective buh-naw-sik Definition: : co... Mar 1, 2024 A Blog About a Blog About a Blog Not to brag but what an absolutely meta-tastic title this is! Also a metastatic one because of the n... Mar 1, 2024 Easy as P.I.E. For tumors, unfortunately, to not only survive but also thrive is often as easy as p.i.e.—those lett... Feb 29, 2024 A Look Before the Leap February 2024 is a leap year, meaning that an extra day is tacked on to the end of the shortest mont... Feb 28, 2024 The Posts with the Mosts Our by-the-numbers PR firm, MCS, has provided us with up-to-date analytics on the EpicentRx website.... Feb 27, 2024 Jumping the Couch We met someone the other day who asked us to rate how enthusiastic we are about lead EpicentRx thera... Feb 26, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Chthonic “Chthonic rhymes with demonic, which is a sort of synonym”. Chthonic adjective thon-ik Definition: :... Feb 23, 2024 A Blog About A Blog Chuckle. What a meta (self-referential) title—and image. So, this morning, having woken up way too e... Feb 22, 2024 The Matrix REPLATINUM: RRx-001 (Nibrozetone) and Platinum-resistant SCLC Inevitably, at some point during their progression, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) tumors learn to do... Feb 21, 2024 ‘Tis the Season for Treason The biggest traitor in human history is not Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, Guy Fawkes, Vidkun Quis... Feb 20, 2024 A Bittersweet EpicentRx Story What is the most addictive drug in the universe? If you ask us (and some others especially post Vale... Feb 19, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Caliginous “You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caligi... Feb 16, 2024 Measure 12 Times and Cut Once The expression, measure twice, cut once (or, more humorously, measure once, cuss twice), means that ... Feb 15, 2024 It’s Both a Floor Wax AND a Dessert Topping So said zany spokesman, Chevy Chase, in an equally zany Saturday Night Live (SNL) skit from the 1970... Feb 14, 2024 Love and Hate Relationship This Valentine’s Day what better subject to tackle than love and hate, specifically as it applies to... Feb 12, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Fuliginous “Hopefully this definition of fuliginous ‘soots’ you.” Fuliginous adjective fyoo-LIJ-uh-nus fuligino... Feb 9, 2024 Big News About Alzheimer’s Disease A Viagra a day keeps the neurologist away? This is the suggestion from a retrospective study from th... Feb 8, 2024 The Royal Wee The recent disclosure of King Charles’ cancer diagnosis has touched off a frenzy of media speculatio... Feb 5, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Uliginous “The definition of uliginous is as clear as mud.” Uliginous adjective yoo-LIJ-uh-nus Definition: : s... Feb 2, 2024 G-Men True we don’t carry an FBI badge like the facsimile of the one pictured above, but feel free to call... Jan 29, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Gnathonic “To be gnathonic is also to be somewhat ironic.” &n... Jan 26, 2024 23andMe Results for RRx-001 (nibrozetone) If the hybrid and “diverse” small molecule, RRx-001 (nibrozetone) could spit in a vial and ship it o... Jan 26, 2024 23andMe Results for AdAPT-001 If the “smart” oncolytic adenovirus, AdAPT-001, assuming it really was that smart, could spit in a v... Jan 24, 2024 Blogging about Leapfrogging To leapfrog is to improve position by means of vaulting. In drug development it is vaunted to be vau... Jan 22, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Epigone “EpicentRx is always iconic, usually harmonic, rarely ironic, and never ever epigonic.” “Epihere tod... Jan 19, 2024 A Blog About a Bog The American Heritage Dictionary defines a bog as “an area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.” B... Jan 17, 2024 Bigger is Worser Go big or go home. Live large. Think big. Hit the bigtime. In general, we are conditioned to think t... Jan 16, 2024 In the Cards The two most advanced indications for RRx-001 (nibrozetone) are in oncology as a chemosensitizer for... Jan 15, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Aporia “What’s the storia with aporia?” “Don’t be in doubt about the meaning of aporia.” Aporia noun uh-poo... Jan 12, 2024 Blogging About Clogging This is a companion post to a recently written one entitled, “Blogging About NO Clogging.” That post... Jan 12, 2024 Blogging About NO Clogging Time and again in conditions like myocardial infarction, hemorrhagic/hypovolemic shock, stroke, pulm... Jan 11, 2024 Down with the Tyranny of Toxicity! We’ve been asked several times about our New Year’s resolution(s). Our response? Revolution. Our 202... Jan 11, 2024 New Year’s Revolution Vive la révolution! The immunotherapy revolution. Having begun in 2011 with the approval of the firs... Jan 10, 2024 Blogging About Pettifogging Call it pettifogging, captious carping, or just plain ol’ nitpicking, but we really hate it when spe... Jan 10, 2024 The Words of the Year “Those that are wordy speak real purdy!” Below are the Words of the Year. This is an anamnesis of 23... Jan 9, 2024 CV for CV EpicentRx is currently in the thick of discussions at JP Morgan with cardiovascular (CV) companies t... Jan 9, 2024 Go Viral or Go Home Virality is an internet term that refers to the rapid spread of information. As an actual virus, AdA... Jan 8, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Rodomontade “To say that Word of the Week is the best is to be a tad rodomontade.” Rodomontade noun, verb and ad... Jan 5, 2024 2024: Live Many More Years For those of you, who like us, miss the addictive hit TV series, 24, in which Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sut... Jan 5, 2024 Unhappy Holidaze Feeling mired, tired, and uninspired after the New Year’s break? Copy that. We can almost hear the n... Jan 4, 2024 Sizemic Shift In Star Wars, Master Yoda says, “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?” Not to ... Jan 3, 2024 “Ring” in the New Year Welcome back and cheers to the New Year! #2024 We plan to ring it in right with the four membered di... Jan 2, 2024 It’s Just a Phase If you’ve ever said “it’s just a phase” or “they grow up so fast” about a child—and God knows we hav... Jan 2, 2024 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Ague “Doctor, doctor, gimme the news, I got a bad case of ague. No pill’s gonna cure my ill, I got ... Dec 26, 2023 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Swither “Hoo dae ye say delay or hesitate in Scots? If ye dinnae ken, read on”. Swither verb chiefly Scottis... Dec 21, 2023 Merry Chrismas Yes, spelling very intentional. Being friends with and/or working closely with several Chrises among... Dec 20, 2023 A Blog About Glögg In the spirit of the Holidays, having already written about eggnog, we decided to give equal time to... Dec 19, 2023 A Blog About Eggnog Love it or hate it—we happen to love it— a staple of the Christmas season that dates all the way bac... Dec 18, 2023 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Calque “It goes without saying (ça va sans dire) that calque is a good word to know.” Calque noun pl -s kal... Dec 13, 2023 NO Más This holiday season we wish you not “no más” or “no more,” like the boxer, Roberto Duran, said to th... Dec 11, 2023 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Inflammaging “Inflammaging is highly dam-aging, which makes it disadvant-aging. By contrast, anti-inflammaging is... Dec 8, 2023 Bloggin’ About the Noggin The brain. The incredible, amazing, fantastic brain. It is from this relatively minute organ, these ... Dec 6, 2023 Eroom’s Law According to the uber-quotable Elon Musk, “Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation. ... Dec 4, 2023 EpicentRx Word of the Week: Immunotherapy “No one is immune to the EpicentRx Word of the Week.” Immunotherapy plural -ies Definition (noun): :... Dec 1, 2023 The Real Wives’ Tales of San Diego (Where EpicentRx Is Located) Wives’ Tales are unscientific and unsubstantiated pieces of advice akin to superstition. Not all of ... Nov 29, 2023 Blogging about Slogging Quiet quitting, lying flat, acting your wage, Bare Minimum Mondays, Work Not Wednesdays—these are al... Nov 27, 2023 EpicentRx Word of the Week: -Oma “-Oma is the grandmother of all suffixes.” -Oma plural -omas also -omata Definition (noun suffix): t... Nov 22, 2023 Ask EpicentRxTM “Let’s talk turkey.” “Time to squash a rumor.” “Don’t be a jerky and blame it all on the turkey.” Q:... Nov 22, 2023 The Second Pilgrims The Pilgrims came to America in 1620 in search of religious freedom. The Second Pilgrims were those ... 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