My favorite side effect is still ‘a false sense of well-being’.
I’ve never experienced it, mind you, but for a couple of weeks I took a drug that had the possibility listed.
It wasn’t “noticed”. What the investigators noticed was that at the end of the trial, the participants didn’t want to return the leftover pills. That’s really unusual. So they asked why not, and eventually one of the participants told them.
I always heard that the researchers knew something was going on very early in the trial, because so many of the male participants (and some female participants too) said, “I don’t know if my heart is working better, but (ahem) something else is!”
That the discoverers of Viagra won a Nobel Prize was controversial, but it wasn’t for the unexpected side effect. It was because this drug, and now others too, acts on the nitric oxide cycle, something that is still poorly understood but it’s believed to play a major role in cell damage and repair.
I’ve paid good money for that kind of “side effect”!
All i can say is that’s not how my father told the story. He was involved in other drug trials, and i had the impression he knew the researchers involved, but maybe that’s not true. Or maybe my-father-the-prude edited the story.
Imagine having that condition named after you.
Dr. Fournier: Honey, they named a medical diagnosis after me!
Mrs. Fournier: How awesome, let me see what it looks like!
I once came across a physician’s note that read “Patient is depressed but states it does not bother him.”
mmm
Jean Alfred Fournier also has two other conditions named after him, both complications of syphilis (he was a French dermatologist specializing in venereal diseases).
The list of eponymous disorders is impressive.
Venerealogy nowadays falls under the umbrella of infectious diseases, but back in the day, STDs were bundled with dermatology because of all the skin-related symptoms.
Alzheimer’s disease is NOT a name-corruption of “old timer’s disease”, as some people think it is, but was actually identified more than 100 years ago by one Dr. Alzheimer, whose name is a derivative of “old age home” which suggests that his ancestors likely ran one.
p.s. I once Googled my own uncommon surname to see if there was a disease named after it, and there is. It’s a Star Trek ailment.
I just heard a new one, didn’t catch the drug name. “Not intended for people assigned female at birth”
Undoubtedly due to some contra-indication for people who have (and were born with) female anatomy. Simply saying “Not intended for women” doesn’t work, as some people who identify as (transgender) males have female anatomy. “Assigned female (or male) at birth” seems to be the accepted term, at the moment, to refer to one’s original anatomical sex.
But there are children who are not under two.
For those of us whose equipment matches our identity, that statement does sound weird. But for those people whose identity doesn’t match the equipment they were born with, it does sort of make sense. I mean, the doctor/nurse/midwife/duella only had the equipment to judge. So they assign the gender. Except the person’s identity doesn’t match, which only shows up later. But they definitely feel assigned.
Except Panera got sued because a woman with a known heart condition drank an ass-load of caffeine. I know that case is complicated a little by labeling and the takeaway is cover yourself for the inevitable lawsuit from an idiot customer.
It was hard for them to let go.
The only thing I came up with was this one, probably because the information about its use in AFAB people is insufficient.