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unusual facts about Medication


Self-medication

A study of Luo children in western Kenya found that 19% reported engaging in self-treatment with either herbal or pharmaceutical medicine.


Abortive medication

Abortive medication (such as the Triptans) is used to interrupt an attack or episode of severe headache.

Aldara

Imiquimod or Aldara, a prescription medication that acts as an immune response modifier

Aldose reductase inhibitor

Aldose reductase inhibitors are a class of drugs being studied as a way to prevent eye and nerve damage in people with diabetes.

Antifungal

Antifungal medication, a medication used to treat fungal infections such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis, etc.

Antiviral

Antiviral drug, a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections.

Benznidazole

Benznidazole (INN, formerly marketed by Hoffman-La Roche under the trade names Rochagan and Radanil) is an antiparasitic medication used in the treatment of Chagas disease.

Cage bed

"We can either use cage beds, or increase people's medication, strap them down, or put them in solitary confinement," says Jan Slezak, director of Social Care Home in Raby, eastern Bohemia.

Camel Club

Stone met him and got him on the TV show Jeopardy! With medication, Farb was able to make a small fortune, with which he started a company for designing Web sites.

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis

Thrombolysis (removal of the blood clot with "clot buster" medication) has been described, either systemically by injection into a vein or directly into the clot during angiography.

Children of Light

Gordon, an alcoholic drug addict whose wife has left him and who has a bad relationship with his children, goes to Mexico to crash the making of a movie version of Kate Chopin's The Awakening that Lu Anne is starring in, and discovers that she has gone off of her medication in an attempt to more fully embody her character.

Chris Small

In 2012, improved medication allowed Small to return to coaching, one of his players being current snooker professional Michael Leslie.

Church of Pentecost

In June 1937, Rev. James McKeown was seriously ill by malaria and was kept in his room at Asamankese for some days without medication in accordance with the rules, belief and practice of the Apostolic Faith.

Cinacalcet

Cinacalcet (INN) is a drug that acts as a calcimimetic (i.e. it mimics the action of calcium on tissues) by allosteric activation of the calcium-sensing receptor that is expressed in various human organ tissues.

Codral

Codral is a brand name of cold and flu medication manufactured by Johnson & Johnson and sold primarily in Australia & New Zealand.

Craig Spangenberg

Spangenberg gained national recognition for his firm by stepping forward to represent Canadian children injured by the birth-defect-causing morning sickness medication Thalidomide.

David Dolphin

He was the lead creator of Visudyne, a medication used in conjunction with laser treatment to eliminate the abnormal blood vessels in the eye associated with conditions such as the wet form of macular degeneration.

Derek Humphry

His first wife, Jean Humphry, ended her life on 29 March 1975, in The Cotswolds with her husband at her side, with an intentional overdose of medication; she was suffering from terminal breast cancer.

Diminazen

Diminazen(e) is an antiinfective drug for animals commercialized as Azidin, Berenil, Ganasag or Pirocide, directed, e.g., against infections with Babesia, Trypanosoma and Cytauxzoon and some bacteria such as Brucella and Streptococcus.

Ductopenia

Other causes of ductopenia include failing Liver transplant, Hodgkin's disease, Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD), Sarcoid, Cytomegalovirus infection, HIV and medication toxocity.

Faith Daniels

In the mid-1990s, she did a series of commercials for the heartburn medication Pepcid AC.

H3 receptor antagonist

An H3-receptor antagonist is a classification of drugs used to block the action of histamine at the Involuntary treatment

The case of Rennie v. Klein established that an involuntarily committed individual has a constitutional right to refuse psychotropic medication without a court order.

Isoprenaline

Isoprenaline (INN) or isoproterenol (USAN, trade names Medihaler-Iso and Isuprel) is a medication used for the treatment of bradycardia (slow heart rate), heart block, and rarely for asthma.

Itopride

This may explain the apparent lack of patient information available in English compared to other similar classes of medication.

Jhenaidah Ex-Cadets Association

It has a Free Friday Clinic (FFC) which gives free medication to poor people in Dhaka and Khulna.

John Loike

Up until that point, no one had produced a scientific study of leaven ingredients in medications and as a result, many religious Jews had to decide on their own whether their medication could be consumed during Passover according to Jewish Law.

Kalma

Alprazolam, a psychiatric medication, available under brand names including Kalma

Local anesthesia

Pulsed radiofrequency, neuromodulation, direct introduction of medication and nerve ablation may be used to target either the tissue structures and organ/systems responsible for persistent nociception or the nociceptors from the structures implicated as the source of chronic pain.

Male genital waxing

Patients on Retin-A, Renova, Differin or isotretinoin have been advised by doctors not to have waxing performed; these medications can weaken the skin, and lead to tearing of the skin.

Metered-dose inhaler

Dry powder inhalers involve micronised powder often packaged in single dose quantities in blisters or gel capsules containing the powdered medication to be drawn into the lungs by the user's own breath.

Middle-of-the-night insomnia

Middle-of-the-night insomnia is often treated with medication, although currently Intermezzo (zolpidem tartrate sublingual tablets) is the only Food and Drug Administration-approved medication specifically for treating MOTN awakening.

Nelson Horatio Darton

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and started working in his uncle's drug business at the age of 13, also becoming a practicing chemist.

Organic peroxide

Benzoyl peroxide is an effective topical medication for treating most forms of acne.

Religion and HIV/AIDS

According to the African Health Policy Network, some churches in London claim that prayer will cure AIDS and the Hackney-based Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV reports that several people have stopped taking their medication, sometimes on the direct advice of their pastor, leading to a number of deaths.

Rod Trafford

Trafford was forced to play with a Kevlar body suit to support his sternum, the material used in bulletproof vests, and for the next four years he had to take regular medication and return to the heart specialists for routine tests.

Rogaine

Minoxidil, a hair-regrowth medication marketed under the brand name Rogaine

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals

Allergan has invested money in 2008 to help develop this medication further and bring it to the market.

Stan Lazaridis

His time there was tainted when in January 2007, Lazaridis returned a positive drug test for anti-androgen Finasteride, a prescription alopecia medication, which was banned at the time.

Sublingual administration

Sublingual (abbreviated SL), from the Latin for "under the tongue", refers to the pharmacological route of administration by which drugs diffuse into the blood through tissues under the tongue.

Tall Man

Tall Man lettering, using upper case lettering in drug names to avoid medication errors

Taming Strange

Kyle is then contacted by Terry, and learns that because the Canadian health care system is managed by Intellilink, Ike has mistakenly been given NFL football player Tom Brady's hormones, while Brady has been given the medication for Ike's laxatives, which now causes Brady to have involuntarily bowel movements on the football field.

Terbutaline

Terbutaline (trade names Brethine, Bricanyl, Brethaire, or Terbulin) is a asthma symptoms and as a tocolytic (anti-contraction medication) to delay preterm labor for up to 48 hours.

Terra Linda High School

Rick DeMont, American Gold-medalist, 1972 Summer Olympics, who had his medal revoked due to banned substances discovered in his Asthma medication.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman wrote that the Lia's parents did not give her medication as it was prescribed because they believed that Lia Lee's state showed a sense of spiritual giftedness, and they did not want to take that away.

Tofenacin

In addition to its use as a pharmaceutical medication, tofenacin is the major active metabolite of orphenadrine and likely plays a role in its beneficial effects against depressive symptoms seen in Parkinson's disease patients.

Trench fever

Chloramphenicol is an alternative medication recommended under circumstances that render tetracycline derivates usage undesirable (such as severe liver malfunction, kidney deficiency, in children under nine years and pregnant women).

Turkish tea

In Turkey, tisanes ("herbal teas") are not considered true teas, but are used as herbal medication, they are mostly popular with tourists, apple (elma çayı), rose hip (kuşburnu çayı), and linden flower (ıhlamur çayı) being the most popular flavors.

Whitfield Crane

During Ugly Kid Joe's inactivity, Crane went on a year-long tour with New York hard rock band Life of Agony before forming Medication with ex-Machine Head guitarist, Logan Mader.

Wolfe Perry

Additionally, he appeared in the controversial 1986 film Soul Man, which starred C. Thomas Howell as a Caucasian student who uses medication to disguise himself as an African American and obtain a Harvard Law School scholarship intended for African American students.


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