Category: health

https://youtu.be/avuhY7D71sQ If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here’s a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they’re combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search…… Continue reading What really happens when you mix medications? | Russ Altman, TED…

https://youtu.be/lVQ3KUTHDe0 Wouldn’t you want to know if your doctor was a paid spokesman for a drug company? Or held personal beliefs incompatible with the treatment you want? Right now, in the US at least, your doctor simply doesn’t have to tell you about that. And when physician Leana Wen asked her fellow doctors to open…… Continue reading Leana Wen: What your doctor won’t disclose…

https://youtu.be/RKmxL8VYy0M When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data…… Continue reading What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe | Ben Goldacre | TED