TED Talks

Russ Altman: What Really Happens When You Mix Medications? (2016x42)

Air date: Mar 02, 2016

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.