Drugs & Medicines

• A _________ is a drug that is used to prevent, treat or relieve the symptoms of disease.  

  medication
• What is a pathogen?

  A microorganism that causes disease 
• Do painkillers help to cure the underlying disease? 

  no
• What type of drug is used to relieve the symptoms of disease?

  painkillers
• What drugs are used as painkillers?

  Paracetamol 

  Aspirin
• What measures could help to reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance?

  Doctors only prescribing antibiotics for serious bacterial infections 

  Patients taking antibiotics for the full prescribed course 
• Which type(s) of organisms can antibiotics kill?

  bacteria
• How do antibiotics help to cure bacterial infections?

  They directly kill bacterial cells 
• True or false? Different antibiotics are effective against different strains of bacteria.

  true
• Occasionally, bacteria can evolve so that antibiotics no longer kill them. 

  In these cases we say that the bacteria has developed what ? 

  antibiotic resistance