Name: What really happens when you mix medications?
Uploaded: 2016-03-02T16:18:08Z
Duration: 14 min 31 s
Description: If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.

If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.

Russ Altman: What really happens when you mix medications?

What really happens when you mix medications?

Discovering glucose spikes from combining antidepressants and cholesterol meds highlights the complexity of drug interactions.

A novel approach using search engine queries unveils potential adverse drug reactions, pointing to a new era of medical research.

Exploring drug interactions through big data uncovers hidden effects, like two safe medications collectively raising glucose.