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Category:Anthocyanins is a sub-category to Category:pH indicators. Hence, the article should not be in Category:pH indicators. Nirmos (talk) 06:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC) True. Sorry.--Biologos (talk) 16:03, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Please have a look at this.Richiez (talk) 13:49, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Biologos; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:44, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
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Biologos,
With regard to your edit to Thalidomide,
WP:MEDMOS says:
My reading of that is that Wikipedia should only list significant side effects that are pertinent because they are common or serious. For example, with doxorubicin the dose-limiting adverse effect is cardiomypathy. That's pertinent, because it shapes the appropriate use and limitations of the drug. For example, with thalidomide, painful neuropathy is pertinent because it's a dose-limiting adverse effect. Dry skin isn't a dose-limiting adverse effect. Stevens-Johnson syndrome is pertinent, even if it's rare, because it's life threatening. Pruritis isn't life-threatening.
Copying a big list side effects from the FDA labeling is dumping low-level facts.
For example, here's a selective list of adverse effects: http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/lookup.cfm?setid=2eda833b-1357-4ed4-a093-194524fcb061#nlm34084-4
Wikipedia is written for the average person, not the expert, and Wikipedia is not an instruction manual for the practice of medicine. There's no purpose to listing rare and very rare non-serious side effects. It obscures the significant adverse effects. You have a long list of rare and minor side effects, with Stevens-Johnson syndrome buried towards the end.
I can't even verify where you got the "Rare" and "Very rare" adverse effects. In the sources you linked to, they just give the number of cases in the treatment and control group -- but they don't give the statistical significance. As I recall from similar calculations, they would need several thousand randomized subjects to identify an adverse effect with an incidence of 1/1,000 at p≤.05. Those adverse effects aren't statistically significant.
I would limit the adverse effects to the nih.gov list above. That was written by a scientist who understands the significance of adverse effects. Those long lists of adverse effects in the treatment group are just copied mindlessly from the clinical reports.
Nobody should be using Wikipedia to find out whether they or their patients are getting rare side effects from thalidomide. That's the practice of medicine which Wikipedia doesn't do. They should go to the package insert and to medical professionals. We're educating people. We filter what's important. Common and serious adverse effects are important. --Nbauman (talk) 20:37, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I had to leave this interesting conversation because of the demands of work. But you are right, this should be discussed in the MEDMOS talk pages, I think. Meanwhile, here's an editorial from The BMJ that authoritatively makes the point I was trying to make:
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5153
Too much information
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5153
Published 13 August 2014
Fiona Godlee, editor in chief, The BMJ
they list 20 symptoms most commonly reported in the previous seven days, such as back pain, fatigue, and headache. Nine of these are listed in more than half of the drug information documents they reviewed, and eight are listed as an adverse reaction to more than 90% of the drugs they looked at.
The authors fear that so many possible harms will deter patients from starting or continuing treatments, or might raise negative expectations and increase rates of reporting of adverse events (the nocebo effect). At the very least, they say, organisations providing information should document the levels of evidence that link the adverse effect with the drug, and where possible provide numerical estimates of risk. They also say that greater reliance should be placed on randomised rather than observational data, except where adverse events are serious or rare. This apparently uncontroversial suggestion will, I have no doubt, raise hackles among those who question the ability of randomised trials to properly report adverse events.
More controversially still, they suggest that clinicians should “contextualise” the information they provide to patients, toning down discussion of common non-specific symptoms to reduce the nocebo effect.
--Nbauman (talk) 05:37, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello. It may interest you that someone called tenofalltrades seems determined to completely delete the "cell disruption" page, to which you previously contributed (you asked me for better refs). Over a 11 minute period in March they deleted ~22,500 words (virtually the entire page), and made no attempt to rebuild the page. Of course, the page was imperfect but I think it was still a useful compendium of information. Now it's pretty much gone.
I've tried to communicate with this person, and then reversed their changes, an effort that has now itself been reversed. I don't have the wiki experience (or the time) to deal with this anymore. So I'm writing to you and several other contributors in case others feel like preserving the page. Thanks a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liamloftus (talk • contribs) 14:54, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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I might not be clear from the diff, but the citation wasn't deleted, it appears twice, so it's been consolidated to only appear one in the reference section. Before the chunk of text that was removed, you can see that <ref name=":0"> is now <ref name=":0"/> (note the / at the end of the ref tag). Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:36, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
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I believe you were the first person to attribute the saying "powerhouse of the cell" to Phillip Siekevitz on the Mitochondrion page. I've been looking into the origins of the phrase, and it far predates this. Did you have a source for this somewhere else online or did you realise this yourself? Thanks, (sorry for bad formatting this is my first post) -- Wooly Cow (talk) 02:39, 15 January 2024 (UTC)