Sythetically made drugs in the lab:
By extracting the active site ingredient from a plant, replicating it’s structure in the lab and mass producing it, more and more drugs can be developed and produced at a faster pace. The active ingredient in a drug is the main ingredient that is used in medication to kill pain.
Pharmaceutical proteins are fast growing drugs for the treatment of disease. New and growing technologies are making proteins easier to produce. Drugs produced in labs can have dosage forms changed quickly i.e. how the drug is delivered. For example, tablet or capsule form.
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Penicillin
An antibiotic in the penicillin group of drugs helps fight bacteria in the body. It is used to treat various types of bacterial infections such as ear infections. Penicillin works by preventing bacteria from forming new cell walls.
Penicillin was first discovered accidently in 1928 by a Scottish scientist named
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Drugs can have more than one drug depending on what that drug is used for. Drugs can have more than one ATC code as each fifth level code represents a pharmaceutically used substance in a single dose.
Drugs are classified into groups of five different levels. The first level of the code includes fourteen anatomical main groups which consist of one letter eg. N = Nervous System. The second level of the code is sectioned into pharmacological or therapeutic sub groups and includes two digits. The third level adds one letter each and indicates the therapeutic/ pharmacological subgroup. The forth group designates the chemical/therapeutic/pharmaceutical subgroup and consists of one letter. The fifth and final level of the code indicates the chemical substance along with including the last two
A couple of friends from university who purchased and sold fentanyl, a deadly drug, on the dark web are now in jail. Aaron Gledhill, 30 and Ross Brennan, 28 raked in hundreds of pounds in profits making and selling the deadly painkiller as well as other illicit drugs. In the past 9 months in the UK, at least 70 individuals have died as a result of ingesting fentanyl, usually when combined with heroin. Gledhill and Brennan are Huddersfield
“Antibiotic sensitivity tests showed that the two groups differed in sensitivity to penicillin and erythromycin, but no other antibiotics.” (Article abstract).Out of the nine hundred samples they took, the group showed the bacteria was defeated by the antibiotic penicillin and the antibiotic erythromycin but the other antibiotics didn’t touch the bacteria. The experiment showed people only two antibiotics were fighting off the bacteria. The two of which are being over used and over time will no longer work. If the bacteria continues to grow bigger and better, the antibiotics for ear infections aren’t going to work which leads to hearing loss, even to the extent of going
PHAR 100 Assignment 3 1. Antibiotics are a form of medicine that seek out and destroy the bacteria that make us feel sick. Antibiotics work great against bacteria, however they don’t work against viruses. Penicillin was the first antibiotic to be discovered by Alexander Fleming, and it was first used to treat infections. Essentially, these powerful medicines fight bacterial infections, and have the potential to save lives.
Some drug examples: codeine, morphine, opium, and secobarbital. Schedule III: Moderate to low potential for addiction and abuse. Some drug examples: butaburbital, anabolic steroids, APC with codine Schedule IV: Lowest potential for addiction and abuse that schedule III drugs. Some drug examples: chloral hydrate, phenobarbital, diazepam Schedule V: Low potential for addiction and
It saved many soldiers from infection and was a major part in cleaning and treating wounds. Penicillin was a reliable antibiotic then, and is still reliable medicine now. It is still popular and used to deal with infections and diseases today. Because of penicillin’s huge positive impact on the medical world from World War II uptil now, posters and encouragement was developed to stimulate more production like the poster to the right. Not only this, but it gave US some economic power because they were the only country who had it.
Eventually, the medicine industry became extremely competitive, causing many people to create drugs with fake formulas just to make a quick profit out of
Penicillin was discovered in a common mold. This was discovered Alexander Fleming's; Flemings saw that something could possibly come out if the mold. In addition penicillin was discovered on accident.¨This invention saved millions of lives¨
In 1970, Congress enacted the Controlled Substances Act in an effort to categorize regulated drugs based on their potential for abuse. This act divided their potential into five categories or technically five schedules. Some examples from each category would be: Schedule 1: heroin or LSD Schedule 2: morphine or opium Schedule 3: butabarbital or anabolic steroids Schedule 4: chloral hydrate or diazepam Schedule 5: low-strength codeine combined with other drugs to form a cough suppressant I believe they created this act to try to prevent drug abuse. This act helps prevent drug abuse by categorizing the drugs from the highest potential of addiction to the lowest potential of addiction. The higher ones have many regulations and laws that way
Did you know that penicillin was used in World War 2 to help reduce bacterial infections in soldiers’ wounds? The author states this in passage 3, The Discovery of Penicillin: The True Story. Penicillin was discovered and helped put into use by many scientists, multiple countries also helped too. To begin with, penicillin was discovered by accident. According to passage 1 Not-So-Dumb Luck, paragraphs 6 and 7 it says “Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming left for vacation one day in September of 1928, he left his laboratory a mess… When he came back he noticed that every dish had been covered in mold… a dish that caught Flemings eye contained… a rare spore called Penicillium notatum.
They made treatments for soldiers who has had severe wounds. Those treatments fell under a new class of drugs called Sulfanilamide1, which provided effective treatments for bacterial diseases like pneumonia and meningitis. One of the safest and active antibacterial available, Penicillin, was a huge medical advancement that was invented during the war. Another huge
This information would help pharmacists be aware of who their patients will be and allow them to decide upon the best way to treat the disease. We learned that the United States is made up of many perceptual regions such as
Penicillins discovery changed the history of the Earth. From Alexander fleming 's lab to the front lines of World War 2, it played an important role in the world. Without this miracle drug the outcome of WW2 could have ended differently and also many medical breakthroughs today might not have happened. Penicillin opened the world to a almost brand new frontier. It profited the
The Lists of Licensed Biological Products is a compilation of lists organized by the FDA Center: Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). So each section is labeled as: (1) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (“CBER”) List of Licensed Biological Products (2) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (“CDER”)
Medication History Reflective Writing Pharmacy Practice II Shaymous Juhnke As a student in SDSU’s pharmacy program one of the activities required to prepare us for real world pharmacy practice is to perform a medication history. Performing a medication history and reviewing it can be helpful to in acquiring information about a patents disease states, keeping an up to date record on their current medications, and helps prevent and resolve potential and current issues with patents medications.
Antibiotics were first introduced to the medical field with the discovery of Penicillin in 1928 by Alexander Fleming. In time, the use of antibiotics and vaccines lead to many diseases becoming extinct and the quality of life increasing dramatically in the United States and other advanced nations. However, over the course of the last century antibiotics have become increasingly accessible and common and this has put their effectiveness at risk. Today antibiotics are often overprescribed and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “30 percent of antibiotics prescribed in the United States are unnecessary” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). When antibiotics are overused what is known as antibiotic-resistance comes into play.