Patrick Kelly

The Origin of Aspirin: From Willow Bark to the Pharmacy Shelf

How Pharmaceutical Patents Make Drugs Expensive

The Story of the Placebo Effect

How Anthrax Changed Infectious Disease

Why Are There So Many Antihistamines? 🤧💊

What Happened to Appendectomies?

The History of Phage Therapy

Antibiotic Resistance: How Humans Ruined Miracle Drugs

Tetracycline: The Rise of Pfizer

Streptomycin: The Controversy over the First Tuberculosis Antibiotic (Schatz vs Waksman)

Penicillin: From Fleming to the Pharmacy

Sulfa Drugs: the Rise and Fall of Sulfanilamide

Why Do We Use the BMI? History of the Body Mass Index

This Crematorium was a HOT MESS | Patrick Kelly

Was There a Vaccine for the Spanish Flu? (1918 Pandemic) | Patrick Kelly

What Was The First Antibiotic?

This microbe was discovered by accident

The Fascinating Story Behind the Simple Stethoscope | Rene Laennec and the Paris Clinical School

The Dark Story of Phrenology

How This Poisonous Plant Became Medicine (Belladonna) | Patrick Kelly

How Chinese Herb Artemisia Has Helped Treat Malaria

How Joseph Lister Changed Surgery Forever (Invention of Antiseptic Surgery)

Why are Brand Name Drugs more Expensive than Generics? | Patrick Kelly