CASE STUDY Eli Lilly: Developing Cymbalta Facts: Eli Lilly and Company Upon serving the Union Army in the Civil War, Col Eli Lilly purchased a laboratory on Perl Street in Indianapolis and established Eli Lilly & Company in 1876. The company first success in the pharmaceutical industry was creating a gelatin-coating pill for easy swallowing and Iletin, the first mass-produced insulin that improved the treatment of diabetes. The company gains national and international notoriety when it developed a drug called Prozac. Prozac was patented and became the number one drug of choice to treat depression. In 1988 the company was commonly referred to as the Prozac Company because of it direct –to consumer advertising which generated sales over 2 billion in a single year.
While the public has formed negative stereotypes due to misunderstanding methadone, methadone maintenance is the most effective form of substance abuse treatment for heroin and pain pill addiction. Methadone is a man made synthetic drug that is used to treat narcotic addicts in preventing withdraw and dependence of opiates. During World War II, German scientists invented Methadone due to the shortage of morphine. Methadone was first used in the United States for drug treatment in the 1960’s. “Two New York physicians, Vincent Dole, a metabolic specialist, and his colleague, Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist, invented methadone maintenance.” (Velten, 1992) Methadone clinics are available in every state and the medication can be prescribed orally, as a tablet, or can be injected.
This kind of Staphylococcus aureus is called “MRSA”, referred to methicillin-resistant S. aureus. This bacteria are multi-resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics, meaning that they are resistant to different kinds of antibiotics, such as penicillin, methicillin, dicloxacillin and cephalosporin. As the process goes, that normal Staphylococcus aureus are being killed by penicillin antibiotic, and the ones that are resistant survived and keep on reproducing, Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that is penicillin resistant spread in the community and its amount kept on increasing. This made natural selection to occur, which the bacteria that are antibiotic resistance are suitable ones and they survived in
Although the infant is finally discharged in good condition, the mistake is a hard lesson for all healthcare workers. Let’s take a closer look at how the error had happened. Phytonadione, an antidote of Coumadin, is frequently used in the prevention of blood thinning in the newborn. The common brand name in the United States includes AquaMephyton and Mephyton. According to Schull’s drug handbook (2006), Phytonadione acts on the liver to promote the production of active prothrombin, proconvertin, plasma thromboplastin component, and Stuart factor.
Linus Carl Pauling was an American scientist and educator, and was one of the most important Scientists of the twentieth century. He has won two Noble Prizes, and is considered a founder of Quantum Chemistry. In his lifetime, Pauling has made many discoveries and theories. One of his theories is that if you take mega-doses of Vitamin C, you can ward of cancer, and you “can help in controlling heart disease, and other diseases[ quackwatch.org ]”. He took in about 12,000 mg daily of it to ward of disease, and when he was sick or began to feel as though he may soon become sick, then he would increase his daily dose to about 40,000 mg instead.
Assignment#2, 2-5-09 Michael Olson Neurontin (Gabapentin) GENERIC NAME: gabapentin BRAND NAME: Neurontin, Gabarone PRESCRIPTION: Yes GENERIC AVAILABLE: Yes PREPARATIONS: * Capsules: 100, 300, and 400 mg. * Tablets: 100, 300, 400, 600, and 800 mg. * Solution: 250 mg/5 ml STORAGE: Tablets and capsules should be stored between 15-30 C (59-86 F). Gabapentin solution should be refrigerated between 2-8 C (36-46 F). The reason i picked Neurontin was not only because i wanted to research it but because it was the miracle drug they had just came out with in 2001 that helped my nerves and made me able to walk and kinda do everything again. What happened was I was in a bad motocross accident November 3, 2001, i was at the Victorville Motocross Complex and I entered a non-sponsored race and the first lap around I cleared the main double jumps in the front and the guy behind me overshot the doubles and i was already lining up for the triples and he landed right on top of my head with the case of his bike and smashed me into my bike, after they got color back in my face they loaded me into the ambulance and had to get me stable until they could move me into the helicopter which took me to Loma Linda where they pronounced me a a five which is about D.O.A. When the doctor met my dad in the waiting room the first thing he told him was hes got a bruised heart, broken neck, collapsed lungs,
Kaptchuk wonders to what extend, if at all, Western medicine can take advantage of the placebo effect to improve treatment. Whats the big idea? For decades, the medical establishment has treated all placebo effects equally but Kaptchuk's studies show the importance of how fake treatments are administered. What has become most clear is that, despite the emphasis Western medicine places on material and chemical changes, medicine is a ritualistic event. Beyond the science of pharmaceuticals is the science of care, a role which encompasses how pills affect our physiology.
A’Nyiah Brown 10/30/2012 Professor Joseph DDT vs The Human Race Should DDT be reapproved for the use in the wake of recent bedbugs across the country? Through the research I have found, I see that DDT should resurface because it hasn’t been proven that this chemical isn’t harmful to the human race or animals. DDT has been known to control pesticides in crop, livestock production, bedbugs infestation, and help end the spread of the Malaria. If this synthetic chemical is actually helping others then it should resurface. DDT also known as dichloro-diphenly-trichloroethane is an organochlorine insecticide which is a white, crystalline solid, tasteless, almost odorless and was discovered in 1939 by Paul Hermann Muller.
1A. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) monitor drugs that have been altered and ones that did not correctly list certain ingredients. The FDA also looks into drugs that are considered to be therapeutic. When the FDA first came about many companies found loop holes that the FDA did not approve of. For example in 1922 the FDA went after the B&M External Remedy.
There have been other synthetic drugs to help the same problems, although physicians have consistently resulted back to the use of cannabis and cannabinoid preparations for medical purposes. Many controlled studies have taken place over the years. In one controlled study, “There is evidence in relieving nausea and vomiting, alleviating acute pain and improving appetite in people with HIV-related disorders”(Degenhardt 1685). However, researchers are still concerned about the long-term use of medical marijuana and how it might affect patients. Researchers around the world, including some in the United States, are continuing to explore the potential of medical