Most of my previous career was spent as a typical engineer that happened to be in the right place at the right time to drive the technology bus to where it is today. Among my most obvious claims to infamy was getting the first “smartphone” to more or less function reliably, given the...
Just 15 years after HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS in the 1980s, the pharmaceutical industry has developed a multi-drug therapy that allows people affected by the virus to live a normal life span. Novartis’ Gleevec prolongs the lives of leukemia patients. Incivek from Vertex Pharmace...
How does Gleevec work? Explain how a vaccine works. How does Herceptin work? Describe how inhalers help people with chronic respiratory issues. Type I allergies are often treated with systematic desensitization therapy. What is this therapy and how is it supposed to work? Why does it take so...
St. John’s Wort should be avoided if you are taking birth control drugs, Xanax, Lanoxin, Docefrez, Pondimin, Gleevec, Camptosar, Ketalar, Prilosec, Zegerid, Luminal, Dilantin, Tacrolimus, Warfarin/Coumadin, certain medications for HIV/AIDS andseveral other drugs. In addition, it is not ...