B1: Medicine and Drugs
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- Created on: 04-06-14 13:46
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- B1: Medicine and Drugs
- Developing new medicines
- Placebo
- Double blind trial
- Neither doctor nor patient knows about placebo
- Do not contain drug
- Double blind trial
- Thalidomide
- Not tested for pregnancy = abnormalities
- Testing
- 1. Cells/tissues
- 2. Organs
- 3. Animals
- 4. Healthy volunteers
- 5. Patients
- Placebo
- How effective are medicines?
- Statins- lower 'bad' cholesterol
- Trials shown decrease-40% of heart disease and strokes
- Herbal remedies
- St Johns Wort- depression
- Effectiveness checked in double blind trial
- Statins- lower 'bad' cholesterol
- Drugs
- Have to be tested well over a long time
- Recreational- used for pleasure
- Withdrawal symptoms
- Legal and illegal drugs
- Recreational
- Affect brain and nervous system
- Adverse effects on heart
- Easy to become addicted
- Health problems e.g.
- Medicinal drugs
- Developed over many years
- Most on prescription
- Recreational
- Drugs in sport
- Steroids
- Build muscle mass
- Blood doping
- Removing blood, replacing in body
- More red blood cells = more carried oxygen
- Removing blood, replacing in body
- Steroids
- Developing new medicines
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