List of articles in "Drug" category - Page 515

Promethazine is a neuroleptic medication and first-generation antihistamine of the phenothiazine family. The drug has strong sedative and weak antipsychotic effects. It also reduces motion sickness and has antiemetic and […]

Methyldopa (L-α-Methyl-34-dihydroxyphenylalanine; Aldomet Aldoril Dopamet Dopegyt etc.) is an alpha-adrenergic agonist (selective for α2-adrenergic receptors) psychoactive drug used as a sympatholytic or antihypertensive. Its use is now mostly deprecated following […]

Rimantadine (INN sold under the trade name Flumadine) is an orally administered antiviral drug used to treat and in rare cases prevent influenzavirus A infection. When taken within one to […]

Alendronic acid (INN) or alendronate sodium (USAN) — sold as Fosamax by Merck — is a bisphosphonate drug used for osteoporosis and several other bone diseases. It is marketed alone […]

Metenolone (or methenolone) is a long-acting anabolic steroid with weak androgenic (testosterone or androsterone-like) properties. It is a naturally occurring drug found within the adrenal glands of pregnant domesticated felines […]

Fenfluramine (3-trifluoromethyl-N-ethylamphetamine trade names Pondimin Ponderax and Adifax) is a drug that was part of the Fen-Phen anti-obesity medication (the other drug being phentermine). Fenfluramine was introduced on the U.S. […]

Ceftriaxone (INN) /ˌsɛftraɪˈæksoʊn/ is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections. It is a third-generation cephalosporin. Like other third-generation cephalosporins it has broad-spectrum activity against […]

Nadolol (Corgard Anabet Solgol Corzide Alti-Nadolol Apo-Nadol Novo-Nadolol) is a non-selective beta blocker used in the treatment of high blood pressure and chest pain (its only FDA approved uses). Additionally […]

Gefitinib (INN /ɡɛˈfɪtɨnɪb/ trade name Iressa marketed by AstraZeneca and Teva) is a drug used for certain breast lung and other cancers. Gefitinib is an EGFR inhibitor like erlotinib which […]

Carbidopa (Lodosyn) is a drug given to people with Parkinson’s disease in order to inhibit peripheral metabolism of levodopa. This property is significant in that it allows a greater proportion […]