Vital Conversation Diseases of Drugs: GU, GI & Immune

Iatrogenicity means:

The Law of Dual Effect

One could determine the diseases of the drugs by:

The drugs currently sweeping across the marketplace are the

With many “well chosen” drugs, the side effects can resemble what the drug was designed to eliminate.

Indications for drugs, as well as recognized “best dosing”, change quickly (example: use of cGMP phosphodiesterase inhibitors for ED, BPH, and PAH being dropped to just one agent in group).

Understanding the mechanism of action—if it is known—can help predict potential adverse effects.

Nutritional deficiencies can be a real problem with drug therapy, potentiating the next “disease”.

Most anti-bacterial agents, being non-specific for bacterial/host cells, indiscriminately kill (bactericidal) or “stun” (bacteriostatic) beneficial as well as pathogenic/opportunistic bacteria AND host cells in the process.

Some of the damaging effects of pharmaceutical use include