Naisha Thakkar

Resources

Worth your time, organized.

Books, papers, tools, and references I keep coming back to — the ones that actually earned a place here.

Books

Bad Science Ben Goldacre

A sharp, readable teardown of how bad statistics and bad incentives creep into medicine and the media that covers it.

Books

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of cancer and cancer treatment, and one of the best examples of making dense science genuinely readable.

Research Papers

How to Read a Paper Trisha Greenhalgh

The classic BMJ series (later a book) on critically appraising medical research. Essential before trusting any single study too much.

Study Resources

Osmosis

Visual explainer videos and study tools for health science students, covering everything from physiology to pharmacology.

Learning Tools

Anki

Free, open-source spaced-repetition flashcards. The single tool most pharmacy and medical students swear by for retention.

Healthcare Websites

MedlinePlus

The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free, plain-language health information site — a reliable first stop for any condition or drug.

Scientific Databases

PubMed

The standard search engine for biomedical literature. If a study exists, it's indexed here first.

Scientific Databases

Cochrane Library

Systematic reviews that synthesize entire bodies of research into a single, evidence-graded answer.

Apps

Epocrates

A point-of-care drug reference and interaction checker used by pharmacists and clinicians every day.

Podcasts

Pharmacy Podcast Network

A long-running network of shows covering community pharmacy, drug development, and pharmacy career paths.

Videos

Armando Hasudungan

Hand-drawn illustrated walkthroughs of physiology and pathology that make mechanisms genuinely click.