成人快手

Thalidomide

A drug synonymous with tragedy, examining thalidomide

• 13 mins

Aspirin

Used to treat pain, fever, and inflammation, aspirin is commonplace in medicine cabinets

• 13 mins

Chloroform

Before chloroform surgery was unimaginably painful

• 13 mins

Chloroquine

A medication mainly used to prevent and to treat malaria is called Chloroquine

• 12 mins

Penicillin

Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, Penicillin proved effective against many bacteria

• 13 mins

Morphine

Derived from opium it's described as nature's oldest gift to suffering humanity

• 13 mins

Cimetidine

It turned the most frequently performed operation into a rare event

• 13 mins

Sulphonamides

The role of sulphonamides in making chemical treatment of an infection a universal reality

• 13 mins

Tamoxifen

Exploring the use of Tamoxifen in the fight against breast cancer

• 13 mins

Zidovudine (AZT)

First broadcast in 2001. Zidovudine (AZT) and other drugs used to treat HIV

• 13 mins