UTAustinX: Take Your Medicine: How to Be a Savvy Consumer

Week 1: Drug Development, Innovations and Costs
A quick overview of how drugs are developed, examples of medical innovations, how drugs cost can curb healthcare costs and intriguing patient stories
 
Week 2:  Drug Approvals, Safety, Costs & Manufacturing
The FDA’s role to protect consumers, drug safety aspects, why drugs cost so much and aspects of manufacturing drug products
 
Week 3:Generics, Personalized Meds and Counterfeits
How do generics differ from the innovator product, the potential & impact of personalized medicine and the worldwide counterfeit drug threat
 
Week 4: Pharmacy Field Trip, Becoming an Informed Consumer, & the Role of University Research
How pharmacists are good for your health, why following directions improves your health, universities are fueling medical innovations and talking to your healthcare provider