The First Billion Dollar Drug Wasn't What You Expect

Nobody Knows How Acetaminophen Works (Paracetamol)

From Poison to Cure: The $13 Billion Medicine Revolution

This Tablet Accidentally Revolutionized Drug Design

Ozempic's Origin Story is Insane

The Birth of Biotech | Recombinant DNA, Genentech, and Insulin Analogs

Why Only 3 Companies Make America's Insulin

The Origins of Insulin

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

How Pharmaceutical Patents Make Drugs Expensive

The Origin Story of the Placebo Effect

Anthrax: The Ancient Killer That Helped Prove Germ Theory

Why Are There So Many Antihistamines? 🤧💊

What Happened to Appendectomies?

Can Phages Save Us From Superbugs?

Antibiotic Resistance: How Humans Ruined Miracle Drugs

The Antibiotic That Saved Millions and Built a Pharma Giant

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

What Was The First Antibiotic?

The Origin of the Stethoscope

The Origin of the Rabies Vaccine

Louis Pasteur vs Robert Koch: The History of Germ Theory

Miasma Theory, Explained

The Story of John Snow & the Broad Street Pump

The Four Humors, Explained

The Dark Story of Phrenology

This Crematorium was a HOT MESS | Patrick Kelly

How Did We Discover Smoking Causes Cancer?

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

How Arsenic went from Poison to Medicine

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

The Town that Dodged the Spanish Flu Pandemic (Gunnison, Colorado) | Patrick Kelly

When the Black Death Came to San Francisco | Patrick Kelly

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

How This Flower Became Medicine (Foxglove & Digitalis) | Patrick Kelly

Like the History of Medicine? Read these 10 books | Patrick Kelly

The History of the EpiPen | Patrick Kelly

The Dark Story Behind Gray's Anatomy | Patrick Kelly

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

The Origins of the Concussion Crisis | Patrick Kelly

The Greatest Snake Oil Salesman of All Time: The Story of Peruna

Anesthesia's Origin Story is DRAMATIC

How Harvey Cushing found hormones...in the brain? | Patrick Kelly

How Rooster Testicles Changed Medicine: The Discovery of Hormones | Patrick Kelly

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

The Book That Fixed Anatomy: De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius | Patrick Kelly

How The Golden Age of Islam Saved Anatomy | Patrick Kelly

Who Dissected the First Human Body? | Patrick Kelly

How Humans (almost) Beat Malaria