Diltiazem is a calcium channel blocker. It is known in the USA under the trade names of Cardizem, Dilacor, Taztia, Tiazac, and other brand names. It is used to treat angina, hypertension, acute, MI, supraventricular arrhythmias, and hyperthyroidism. It has been used off-label to be […]

Calcium channel blockers are used in medicine to treat: – Hypertension – Control heart rate – Prevent cerebral vasospasm – Angina They were first discovered by a German pharmacologist, Albrecht Fleckenstein, in 1964. He reported that prenylamine and verapamil blocked the excitation-contraction coupling. This led […]

Did you know…? That LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was derived from the ergot fungi. Wikipedia has a full article about the details of this.  Very interesting check it out here:  Wikipedia link. “LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann […]

Did you know that chloramphenicol, discovered in 1947, was the first antibiotic to be synthesized? I found this in an article that Wikipedia has. Check it out.