Original-Veröffentlichung 20 janvier 2010
Voherige Episode S2010E02 - Why Do Viruses Kill?
Episode S2010E03
Land Vereinigtes Königreich
Genre Dokumentation
Externe Links Seite TheTVDB
IMDB-Seite
TheMovieDB-Seite
Letzte Aktualisierung 9 mai 2022 - 19:11
auf 11 Datenbanken

Pill Poppers

1 Mitglied

Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills. Antibiotics, cholesterol lowering tablets, anti-depressants, painkillers, even tablets to extend youth and improve performance in bed. These drugs perform minor miracles day after day, but how much is really known about them?

Drug discovery often owes as much to serendipity as to science, and that means much is learnt about how medicines work, or even what they do, when they're taken. By investigating some of the most popular pills people pop, Horizon asks, how much can they be trusted to do what they are supposed to?