# What really happens when you mix medications?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2015
- Speaker: Russ Altman
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/russ_altman_what_really_happens_when_you_mix_medications)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.

## Lectures

1. [What really happens when you mix medications?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/russ_altman_what_really_happens_when_you_mix_medications/0397de684b96), 15 min (TED's player)