The Drug Chat with Dr. Wambui

23/05/2023

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Our amazing discoverers/scientists are always at work and in the years of 2000s they gave us this class. The other oral anticoagulants besides Warfarin. Factor 10a inhibitors part of the coagulation cascade a genius way to stop that clot.

Dr. Wambui provides drug education using simple terms. Drugs will always be in our lives, let’s get empowered through knowledge to be better healthcare providers, caregivers, or patients.

30/03/2023

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A stroke is an emergency! We need to break down that clot, enter the thrombo(clot) lytics(disintegrate) class of drugs.

10/02/2023

https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/Alpha-blockade--Alpha-agonists--Vasodilators-e1uovmb
Our bodies are truly a work of art.

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01/11/2022

Wherever you go on this globe cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death. Hypertension is a risk factor for this. Listen up as we go through the drugs that treat high blood pressure.

Whichever set of data you look at globally or within your country cardiovascular diseases leads in the causes of death. Hypertension or High Blood Pressure is a risk factor for these diseases. In this session we will as usual check out how the body works on a normal day then apply the drugs that we....

10/08/2022

https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/Post-attachment-Inhibitors-e1mb2cb
The first novel ARV drug in over a decade is in this class. Listen up!!

The description of how these drugs work is like a really good Sci-Fi movie! It's the last class of the antiretroviral drugs we look at. The first novel ARV drug in over a decade is in this class. Listen up!!

20/07/2022

Here we are another class of ARV drugs!! Now we are inhibiting the integration of virus into host cell. Listen up pretty cool!
https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/Integrase-Strand-Transfer-Inhibitors-e1lf7tl

In this class, the virus is inside the cell however we stop its replication by inhibiting yet another enzyme. Just this year this class got a new drug, how encouraging is that! We are still adding on to the ARVs who knows cure could be around the corner.

09/06/2022

https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/Protease-Inhibitors-e1jo327

These group of drugs still going strong!! First one approved in 1995. Yet another enzyme being inhibited to get this virus under control (read suppressed). Listen up!

02/06/2022

https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/The-Non-Nucleoside-Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibtiors-e1jdie9

Last episode we looked at the NRTIs now we have the NNRTIs. What's the difference besides the extra N you ask. Listen up and learn how they work they get used quite a bit.

18/05/2022

The first reported case(s) of HIV/AIDS was in 1981. Today majority of those that are HIV positive live in low and middle income countries, and many of them were not born in 1981. In this episode we look at the HIV global statistics and a recap on how the virus attacks in preparation of the HIV/AIDS drugs discussions.
https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/The-Human-Immunodeficiency-Virus-HIV-and-AIDS-e1imopv

The first reported case(s) of HIV/AIDS was in 1981. Today majority of those that are HIV positive live in low and middle income countries, and many of them were not born in 1981. In this episode we look at the HIV global statistics and a recap on how the virus attacks in preparation of the HIV/AIDS....

19/04/2022

Doctors Beatrice Kimani and Sheenal Davdra join us to talk all things antimicrobial resistance. Listen up they have great ideas and insights drawn from health research that they carried out at the hospitals they work.
https://anchor.fm/wambui-wamburu/episodes/Antimicrobial-Resistance---What-is-it--Is-it-an-issue-here-e1gtapk

Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global public health crisis as flagged by the World Health Organization. We are joined by Dr. Beatrice Kimani and Dr. Sheenal Davdra pharmacists at the Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital and Mbagathi hospital respectively (both hospitals in Nairobi). They each carried....

08/04/2022

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Dr. Wambui provides drug education using simple terms. Drugs will always be in our lives, let’s get empowered through knowledge to be better healthcare providers, caregivers, or patients.

08/04/2022

05/04/2022

We have known about Insulin since the 1800s! Whaattt? Listen and learn a thing or two.

We end the chat on anti-diabetic drugs with insulin. Listen up to the interesting journey that insulin has had to get to where we are today. An encouragement to researchers globally to keep on keeping on!

02/04/2022

Amina Farah founder of Fab-U-Las Living and I joined the loop on K24 and had a superb conversation about menopause. Hope you enjoyed it but if you missed it..... Here you go.....
https://fb.watch/c7LCjV36II/

02/04/2022

Amina Farah from Fab-u-las Living and I joined the loop on K24 and had a superb conversation about menopause. Hope you enjoyed it but if you missed it..... Here you go.....
https://fb.watch/c7LCjV36II/

07/03/2022

05/03/2022

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