In this episode, Dr’s J and Santhosh bring their history of antibiotics series to a close by discussing modern naming conventions. Along the way they cover drug naming rules, the us adopted names council, submitting our fake drugs, international naming standards, CAS, the syllable rule, the anatomy rule, sildenafil, plosive and fricative letters, medical role playing, the WHO list of essential medicines and more. So sit back and find out when it comes to drugs, what exactly in in a name!

Sources
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/fyi-how-does-drug-get-its-name#page-2
https://www.ama-assn.org/about/usan-council
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines

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