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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Chemistry For a Healthier World

An article on drugs, and their intended method of treating symptoms/diseases. I found it interesting how the article breaks down all aspects of a drugs use, how a drug is made, and how a drug functions in terms of chemistry. One of the most interesting things mentioned in the article are about resistance. When illnesses/diseases are treated with drugs, the weaker strains of bacteria are killed, but the stronger ones remain. This poses a huge problem since the stronger strains quickly multiply to form a large group of strains only made of the drug resistant bacteria. Chemists are learning to prevent this from occurring, and have already solved this problem in many aspects of drug use. The question is, when will chemists be able to solve this problem for all drugs being used?

Here is a picture of some drug-resistant bacteria:



This article really ties together the key ideas of our blog, so go on and check this article out y'all!
You can find it in the link below:

http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/chemhealth/med.htm


keep yourselves updated, and check back soon for my next blog post

'till next time,

peace, love, sammywhammy

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