#Pharmaceutical Medicine

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Cocaine

“Cocaine hydrochloride for medicinal use. This is a CII controlled substance in the United States.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[ramon-tikaram-love]

–I love you. –I know. –I mean it.

Ramon Tikaram as Charon Stephen Dillane as Prometheus Kaos (2024–)

[bendme-otc]

one door closes another opens, taking a new step in healthcare towards pharmacy.

[autumn2may]

Johnson & Johnson is currently, like right this minute, trying to extend their patent on the TB drug bedaquiline, keeping it out of generic for another four years. TB killed about 30,000 people last week and is the world's deadliest infectious disease.

If this drug does not go generic now it could affect 6 million people in the next four years (the time it would take the "new" patent to run out). Out of those millions of people who get TB, but can't get bedaquiline, most of them will die. From a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

Why is this happening? Money. But also, because TB is not an issue in countries like the US. We can afford its $1.50 a pill price. But if you live in a poor country, that's too much money to spend on something you need to take for up to four months.

J&J needs to let this drug go public and do its job in places that can't currently afford it. They need to help people, instead of trying to wring the last few drops of money out of one of their many products, at the cost of human lives. @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog does a waaaay better job of explaining this than me. Check out the video and the video description for links and ways to help!

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Just learned during work that Faramir and Boromir had a third brother who probably died of diabetes; let me introduce you...

[scotianostra]

The pharmacologist James Whyte Black was born on 14th June 1924, in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.

During his lifetime James Black was involved in the development of two different treatments, Propranolol, (Inderal) a beta blocker used to treat high blood pressure and Cimetidine ( Tagamet), used for heartburn.

He attended Beath High School where his teacher persuaded him to take the competitive entrance examination for St Andrews University. An intelligent boy, he managed to earn the Patrick Hamilton Residential Scholarship. Going on to study medicine but decided against a career as a doctor instead going on to lecture at University College before moving to Singapore and then back to University of Glasgow

It was in Glasgow Blacko built a research laboratory providing the most advanced cardiovascular technology and developed an interest in the effects of the hormone adrenaline on the human heart.

He was persuaded to leave the academic life and joined ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958. His years with the company led to some extraordinary discoveries in medical science. He collaborated with scientists in his team to develop propranolol which is a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. The discovery of propranolol is considered one of the greatest breakthroughs in the treatment of heart disease.

Along with the development of propranolol, Black was also working on developing a similar method of treatment for stomach ulcers. However, ICI was not interested in pursuing research in this direction. Thus, Black resigned in 1964 and joined Smith, Kline and French, it was with them he developed a new drug called cimetidine, now you might not have heard of it by that name but the company branded it as Tagamet in 1975, used in the treatment of heartburn and peptic ulcers it became the world’s largest-selling prescription drug.

Black was knighted in 1981 and was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine along with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”

In 2006 Dundee University honoured him with the opening of the Sir James Black Centre, the following year King’s College London followed Dundee by also opening a centre named after Black.

Black died, aged 85, on the morning of 22nd March 2010 after a long illness and is buried at the Ardclach cemetery near Nairn. Upon hearing of Black’s death, Professor Pete Downes, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee said Black “was a great scientist, but he was also a great man to know” while the BBC said he was “hailed as one of the great Scottish scientists of the 20th Century”. He was described by The Daily Telegraph as the man who earned the most for the pharmaceutical industry through his drug development, though he received little personal financial gain from his work.

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The definition and practice of pharmacognosy have been evolving since the term was first introduced about 200 years ago (Kinghorn, 2001; Samuelsson, 2004), as drug use from medicinal plants has progressed from the formulation of crude drugs to the isolation of active compounds in drug discovery. The American Society of Pharmacognosy refers to pharmacognosy as “the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances, or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources”. As practiced today, pharmacognosy involves the broad study of natural products from various sources including plants, bacteria, fungi, and marine organisms.

Marcy J. Balunas, A. Douglas Kinghorn, in Life Sciences, 2005 (source: ScienceDirect)

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Risperidone

“Box of 2mg Risperidone tablets, trade name Rispolept.” - via Wikimedia Commons (original description translated from Polish using Google Translate)

[brightlotusmoon]

Random person trying to make friends: Yeah, so, I don't trust those crazy drugs or vaccines, they cause too much injury and we probably don't need them. So, what are your hobbies?

Me, shoving bread sticks in my metaphorical purse: That's great. I gotta go. Nice chatting with you!

[bendme-otc]

Late night studying 📑

[refalthefairest]

“The challenge for both medicinal chemist and pharmacologist is to determine the overlap of chemical and biological space, to map biologically useful chemical space and to define those areas where molecules of therapeutic utility may be found recognizing that such utility depends upon both pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties”

Triggle, DJ; Biochemical Pharmacology

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Tornado hits North Carolina Pfizer plant

[tierriita]

I’m reading some cool shit atm for my drug-herb interaction essay but I’m just too exhausted to be blown away and I feel bad about it cause herbs are the coolest thing ever?? They exert their protective and healing functions on a MULTITUDE of levels in ways that I don’t see pharmaceutical drugs doing.

(RB1 are Ginseng bioactive compounds) and this study is on T2 diabetes

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