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A pharmaceutical drug, also called a medication or medicine, is a chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose a disease or to promote well-being. [3] Traditionally drugs were obtained through extraction from medicinal plants , but more recently also by organic synthesis . [ 4 ]
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
Pakistani doctors operate on an injured woman in Muzafarabad in 2005 Healthcare Delivery System of Pakistan [1] [2]. The healthcare delivery system of Pakistan is complex because it includes healthcare subsystems by federal governments and provincial governments competing with formal and informal private sector healthcare systems.
[31] [32] In 2022, the combination with brompheniramine and dextromethorphan was the 265th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 1 million prescriptions. [33] [33] [34] In 2022, the combination with loratadine was the 289th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 500,000 ...
Rank Brand Name(s) Generic Name Sales Q1 2014 Sales ($000) Change from Q4 2013 Company(ies) Disease/Medical Use First Approval Date Patent Expiration Date [6] [7]; 1: Abilify
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML [1]), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system. [2]
The first in a new class of narrow-spectrum macrocyclic antibiotics, fidaxomicin, has been approved for the treatment of C. difficile colitis. [162] New cephalosporin-lactamase inhibitor combinations also approved include ceftazidime-avibactam and ceftolozane-avibactam for complicated urinary tract infection and intra-abdominal infection.
The British had shown some interest in understanding local medicinal practices in the early nineteenth century. A Native Medical Institution was setup in 1822 where both indigenous and European medicine were taught. After the English Education Act 1835, their policy changed to champion European medicine and disparage local practices. [175]