Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems. To this end in 2017, WHO launched a global initiative to reduce severe, avoidable medication-associated harm in all countries by 50% over the next 5 years.

In this episode Dr. Wambui has a chat with Dr. Kyle Hultgren the founding director of the Purdue University College of Pharmacy's Center for Medication Safety Advancement. They talk about the importance of Medication safety covering topics like; what is medication safety, who is responsible for medication safety, and strategies to ensure medication safety in healthcare. 

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.

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.

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.