In 2003, researchers fingered
diclofenac as the cause of the sudden and widespread disappearance of three of India's most common vultures: the white - backed, the slender - billed, and the Indian vulture.
Not exact matches
Another called for eliminating the veterinary drug
diclofenac, which kills vultures and other birds,
as well
as rodenticides, insecticides, and poison bait.
Alam is worried, however, by signs that the use of problematic alternatives to
diclofenac, such
as ketoprofen, is on the rise — even within safety zones.
A 2004 study estimated that
diclofenac contamination of
as few
as one in 760 cow carcasses is enough to drive down vulture numbers.
After India imposed a ban on veterinary forms of
diclofenac, for example, drug companies there started selling an extra-large dose, ostensibly for human use, that was the same
as the dose used on cattle.
In Spain, the authors of today's letter are urging the Spanish government to rescind
diclofenac's approval for veterinary use under «the precautionary principle, which was recognized
as a fundamental element of environmental policy at the Rio Conference of 1992.»
Examples of drugs identified
as high - potential agents within the Repurposing Drugs in Oncology (ReDO) project include mebendazole, cimetidine, nitroglycerin,
diclofenac and clarithromycin, among others [3].
Your Doctor may choose to prescribe painkillers or anti-inflammatories, such
as ibuprofen or
diclofenac sodium (voltarol).
What is most remarkable about the more recent study is not that turmeric curcuminoids have potent anti-inflammatory properties — there are already hundreds of studies confirming its COX - 2 reducing and otherwise anti-inflammary effects — but rather how much safer they are relative to NSAID drugs like
diclofenac, which like most pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory drugs have been linked to adverse health effects such
as increased cardiac mortality, miscarriage and seizure.
In practical terms, the chance of you hurting yourself with a drug like
diclofenac sodium — ironically, in an attempt to reduce pain —
as compared to a simple kitchen spice like turmeric, is infinitely higher.
The most common analgesics currently used in rabbits include butorphanol, buprenorphine and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such
as aspirin, carprofen,
diclofenac, flunixin, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, meloxicam, acetominophen and piroxicam.
The following are ingredients that can cause serious clinical signs requiring medical intervention: baclofen, flurbiprofen,
diclofenac, ketamine, lidocaine, dibucaine, 5 - fluorouracil, calcipotriene
as well
as others.
As odd ad the word «
diclofenac» is, it was the even stranger name of a similar drug that really made me wonder: «etoricoxib».