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Every episode of Drug Story uses one prescription drug to tell surprising, true tales about the business of disease and health. Hosted by award-winning science journalist Thomas Goetz, MPH, this podcast asks the big question: What happens when we use drugs to fix our big problems? www.drugstory.co
Thomas Goetz hosts Drug Story, a society show with 15 episodes published.
A bonus episode! Here is a conversation that I had recently with STAT, the excellent publication about health and medicine. If you are in the business of health and medicine, you surely know about STAT - For a decade the
You may not think of fluoride as a drug, but it fits the bill: The FDA classifies fluoride as a drug, an essential nutrient to human health, and regulates its use. So yeah. It’s a drug. Fluoride used to be boring. 75% of
This episode is all about ivermectin - which truly is a wonder drug! A veritable miracle cure. For, ahem, river blindness. And for some other parasitic diseases, like hookworm. Mostly in animals. But in the US, you have
Today we’re sharing an episode of Cautionary Tales, by Tim Harford. This show concerns Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound - one of the most popular patent medicines of the late 19th century. Mrs. Pinkham’s compound was s
20 years ago, pharmacogenomics was all the buzz: matching specific drugs to our personal DNA was supposed to transform medicine and human health. But here we are 20 years later, and much of that excitement has fizzled. V
Ever heard of neurasthenia, aka Americanitis? It was the first epidemic of the 20th century - and it's number one symptom was insomnia. It may have just been the electricity. In this episode of Drug Story, we step into t
Pain is probably the oldest problem in medicine. It’s the way our bodies tell us that something is wrong here. But pain has long been considered a symptom. So when medicine can’t find what’s wrong, or when medicine can’t
The idea of drug patents makes a lot of sense: The company that put the effort and resources into developing the medicine is the first to reap the benefits. That company gets a limited monopoly for 20 years, when it is t
It used to be that getting older meant slowing down. A little less pep, a little less zip, a little less zest. So it goes. For men, this was partly about testosterone. After 40 or so, our bodies produce less and less tes
Do you feel that? That doubt and dread and worry? That’s anxiety - and lucky for you, there’s a pill for that. It’s called Xanax. And it works. Really well. And really fast. Prescribed for panic attacks and anxiety, one
For decades, obesity was treated as a matter of self-control and free will: If you were fat, it was your own fault. You could try a diet - but the diet companies were also in on the fix: For years, Weight Watchers was ow
There’s no blood test for depression, no MRI or CT scan that can detect it. Because depression, like a lot of things involved with mental health, is invisible. Still, depression is the most common mental health issue in
Once you turn 40, it seems like half the people you know are taking a statin drug. You know, because their cholesterol is high, and to prevent heart disease down the line. It makes sense: better safe than sorry. This is
Epipen is an exquisitely engineered, expertly marketed, totally modern drug. And it’s an amazing success story, especially if you count success through dollars - Epipen sales rose from $200 million in 2007 to $1 billion
Diabetes and anxiety and insomnia and depression and food allergies. For every modern malady, there are drugs promising to fix it. SO MANY DRUGS. But they never really fix the problem, do they? Yes, drugs can help people
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