How Do Drugs Work?
The Society’s Young Pharmacologists look at how common drugs used to treat diseases such as asthma, diabetes and pain work. There are seven videos, each tackling a pharmacological issue or a set of drugs. A video playlist, containing all seven episodes, is available from YouTube and an overview of the series is below:
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors)
- Why do we need new drugs?
- Beta-2 adrenoceptor agonists (asthma)
- Paracetamol and Ibuprofen
- monoclonal Antibody: Anti-Neoplastic Drug -- Trastuzumab (Herceptin®)
- Insulin and metformin
- Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
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