How much is really known about the medicines we take, and can they be trusted to work?

Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills. Antibiotics, cholesterol lowering tablets, anti-depressants, painkillers, even tablets to extend youth and improve performance in bed. These drugs perform minor miracles day after day, but how much is really known about them?

Drug discovery often owes as much to serendipity as to science, and that means much is learnt about how medicines work, or even what they do, when they're taken. By investigating some of the most popular pills people pop, Horizon asks, how much can they be trusted to do what they are supposed to?-YT
westysays...

so much retarded spin on this , This presentation style is very irresponsibly considering the type of people that this is aimed at probably don't understand science very well.

statistically the majority of medicen when proscribed correctly does better than the non usage of it and the drugs go through huge triles that takes years , but this documentry skips over those pionts to focus on random emotional things and hypes the danger.

i dont get the need to spin this as good and evil.

"I actualy got pregnent on the pill " ( well probably because u didn't take it correctly)

Trancecoachsays...

Clinical trials are performed with a randomized sample of several thousand people before statistical significance is achieved and a drug is approved for sale, but all of a specific medication's side-effects will never be known with one hundred percent certainty until after the drug has gone to market and has thus been prescribed to several hundred thousand people... Point-and-case, Vioxx, or Yaz to take two recent examples.

And this is to say nothing of the various "interaction" effects that occur when two or more drugs are prescribed concurrently, with little to no research about how that particular "cocktail" effects which type of person.

>> ^westy:

so much retarded spin on this , This presentation style is very irresponsibly considering the type of people that this is aimed at probably don't understand science very well.
statistically the majority of medicen when proscribed correctly does better than the non usage of it and the drugs go through huge triles that takes years , but this documentry skips over those pionts to focus on random emotional things and hypes the danger.
i dont get the need to spin this as good and evil.
"I actualy got pregnent on the pill " ( well probably because u didn't take it correctly)

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