BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cyclooxygenase, Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit Ii, Threshold Of Pain
5 Feb 2016
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Name brand drugs and generic drugs have equivalent bioavailability. The one thing that you really need to worry about with asa is if you have, for example arthritis, you will be taking the drug on a regular basis, you are going to ruin your stomach. The low dose stuff is for people on a prescription and that"s why it"s expensive. (it is literally the regular strength) Generic used to be cheaper but now it"s about the same amount: cahn and p. hepp (1886) were trying to find a way to deworm people. They randomly gave people stuff from the lab to see if it had an effect. They gave some guy some mothballs and noticed that it reduced fever. Turns out it wasn"t naphthalene, the bottle was mislabeled it was actually acetanilide. Needed to dispose of 50 tons of aminophenol. He was messing around with the chemical and came up with phenacetin.
