The Drug Chat with Dr. Wambui
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Dr. Wambui provides drug education using simple terms. Drugs will always be in our lives, let’s get empowered through knowledge to be better healthcare providers, caregivers, or patients.
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We end the chat on anti-diabetic drugs with insulin. Listen up to the interesting journey that insulin has had to get to where we are today. An encouragement to researchers globally to keep on keeping on!
The drug discoverers out there are a fabulous bunch! For a disease that has been around for so long even today we are inquisitive enough to find new ways to treat this disease. Enter the Sodium -Glucose co-transporter type 2 inhibitors that lower blood glucose without insulin playing a role in this reduction, and the first in this class was approved in 2013! Yes just the other day (other day in drug years).
What an amazing discovery these drugs are. With novel ways of beating diabetes, they go beyond just insulin secretion, FASCINATING! Listen up to how our bodies work then apply these drugs.
What a captivating name.....Thiazolidindiones!! Besides understanding how these drugs work, we learn what a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program is, and why drugs are placed on this program.
Sandra Muchilwa is a registered nurse with five years experience in Nairobi Kenya. As a radiology nurse she shares with us her journey in becoming a nurse and what her experience as a radiology nurse is like. Join us and learn about a different role in nursing.
In this episode we discuss another two of the oral anti-diabetics. These two get grouped together because they have some similarities on how they decrease blood glucose. Hint.... Hint not insulin production.
Getting into the drug classes used to treat diabetes. We start off with those that increase the secretion of insulin - Sulfonylureas and Meglitinides.
These drugs get to their site of action and stimulate our bodies to release more insulin to gobble up the glucose, as a result blood sugar levels are controlled.
In this episode we look at "What is Diabetes Mellitus?". I
t's a short introduction to help us better understand how the different classes of drugs get plugged in with the goal to treat and control high blood sugar levels.
Welcome to the final episode of season 1!!! In this episode we tackle the following classes: PI3K inhibitors, mTOR inhibitors, Proteosome inhibitors, Histone deacetylase inhibitors, DNA Methylation inhibitors, Hedgehog pathway blockers, and CAR T cell therapy. What an exciting group of target therapies, novel ways to fight cancer that are really fascinating.
Ok I change my mind, growth factors are the most amazing pieces in the human body bar none! We not only chat about growth factors but also look at Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors as they work in the inhibition of how growth factors exhibit their work.
Cancer cells can be sooooo smart they figured out a way not to be detected by our immune system. However we are smarter! We came up with drugs that counteract them. "Checkmate Cancer!!"
In this episode we tackle drugs that are immunomodulators. We get to see how these drugs activate or boost the immune system. We also have a recap of how these immune cells work and relate this to these drugs.
As we prepare to look at Immunotherapies, this episode will give an overview of what the immune system is, how it works and the players in this fascinating part of the human body.
This is the last block of the hormone therapy drugs. We go through the Aromatase inhibitors, Gonadotropin releasing agonists, and Gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonists.
In this episode we chat about drugs that are working on receptors. Both prostate cancer and breast cancer depend on hormones to grow. How about we stop the hormones from their action. That's exactly what these drugs do. Ride along with me.
Moving on to the next block of drugs. We begin by finding out what hormones are and how they are produced. We then look at the first class in this block the Adrenal Steroid Inhibitors. Fun times with the hormones!
The chemotherapies that have been derived from plants. This is the last of the "Traditional Chemotherapies', how they came to be is very impressive. We chat about how they work of course and seal of the session with miscellaneous anti-cancer agents.
We are at the tail end of the traditional chemotherapies. Yippee! The mechanism of action of these two classes, with associated toxicities and pharmacokinetics are discussed in this episode. As always we apply concepts of pharmacology to better learn and retain how the drugs work.
Our journey continues with another 2 classes of anticancer drugs. Looking at how they plug into our bodies, plus we use examples of the drugs in these classes for better understanding.
An overview on these drugs' mechanism of action, possible toxicities and drug interactions.
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