分类目录归档：drug
So you go to the doctor and get some tests.
The doctor determines that you have high cholesterol
and you would benefit from medication to treat it.
So you get a pillbox.
You have some confidence,
your
Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz
This is a tuberculosis ward,
and at the time this picture was taken in the late 1800s,
one in seven of all people
died from tuberculosis.
We had n
I remember the first time that I saw people injecting drugs.
I had just arrived in Vancouver to lead a research project
in HIV prevention in the infamous Downtown East Side.
It was in the lobby of the
So the first antidepressants were made from, of all things,
rocket fuel, left over after World War II.
Which is fitting, seeing as today, one in five soldiers develop depression,
or post-traumatic str
So this is the first time I've told this story in public,
the personal aspects of it.
Yogi Berra was a world-famous baseball player who said,
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Researchers
hi uh so um this chap here he thinks he
can tell you the future his name is
Nostradamus although here the son have
made him look a little bit like Sean
Connery and like most of you I suspect I
don't r
Tony asked for a show of hands how many
people here are over the age of 48 well
there do seem to be a few well
congratulations because if you look at
this particular slide of us life
expectancy you ar
Most people will take a pill,
receive an injection,
or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives,
but most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work.
How can var
Which of these three people is doing something risky?
Is it the one who takes their cholesterol medication with grapefruit juice?
The one who takes Acetaminophen pain relievers
for a sore ankle bef
have you ever been in a situation that
seems perfect
and then weeks months or years later you
discover it's not as perfect as it seems
you find yourself fascinating between
putting on rose-colored gla