930 Seven Drugs that Changed the world

Travel Medicine Podcast

In this extra long holiday weekend episode, Dr's J and Santhosh, along with Space Pharmacist Eleanor O Rangers debate the 7 most important drugs in all of medicine! Along the way, they cover statins, the 4 S study, good v bad cholesterol, the secret history of bayer, Napoleonic war blockades and aspirin, the first mass market drug, insulin jacob jingleheimer schmidt, e coli insulin farms, alexander fleming the slob, how penicillin won the war, antibiotic resistance, the first antipsychotic, "the pill", and more! SO sit back and relax as we teach you about history changing meds!

Further Reading

https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/felix-hoffmann

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-puerto-rico-pill-trials/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20047112/

https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/drugs-that-changed-the-world

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15259203/#:~:text=During%20the%20Second%20World%20War,the%20far%20less%20effective%20sulfonamides.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2655089/

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