This week on the Rated Rx Podcast, Robbie Abasi, Sam Llona, and Xavier Hill celebrate Pharmacy Month by talking about the medications that changed the world. The crew shares their top picks—penicillin, smallpox vaccines, and antiretroviral drugs—and how each one reshaped public health. They move from past breakthroughs to future hopes, debating which conditions need the next big cure and why diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s still frustrate researchers and families alike.
Later, things take a strange turn when they react to a viral TikTok of someone marinating chicken in NyQuil. You’ll hear the team’s pharmacist brains short-circuit as they try to make sense of it. From there, the Plan B Blind Draft introduces the wildest made-up medications imaginable, from freezing time pills to regret-free memory tabs.
Robbie wraps with a new segment called Under the Cap, revisiting the story of thalidomide and the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendment that forever changed how the FDA approves drugs. The discussion shifts to today’s political climate, vaccine misinformation, and the importance of trusting experts over conspiracy headlines. The episode ends with a blunt reminder: read books, not comment sections.
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