Not exact matches
Just consider thefruits of a
similar Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raid last fall,code -
named Operation Netroids.
A
drug called flibanserin, which was only approved by the US FDA (Federal Drug Administration) at the third attempt and is being marketed in the US in October 2015 under the name «Addyi,» produced similar results in clinical tri
drug called flibanserin, which was only approved by the US FDA (Federal
Drug Administration) at the third attempt and is being marketed in the US in October 2015 under the name «Addyi,» produced similar results in clinical tri
Drug Administration) at the third attempt and is being marketed in the US in October 2015 under the
name «Addyi,» produced
similar results in clinical trials.
Further investigation revealed that the compound,
named incensole acetate, can regulate the flow of ions in and out of neurons in a manner
similar to the way antidepressant
drugs work.
Just as generic food is
similar to brand -
name products, generic medication is often nearly identical to comparable brand -
name drugs.
If the only thing a product has going for it is a mashed - up
name similar to a
drug, pack up your underwater car and go driving through a meteor shower.
Provigil (generic
name modafinil) is a wakefulness - promoting
drug that's
similar to caffeine — however, medications should not be used as a CPAP substitute.
Adapted by Kassell from Steven Fechter's play of the same
name, «The Woodsman» is at heart a film about the throes of recovery, but its studious avoidance of 12 - step therapy - speak, and its focus on a compulsive disorder that is morally inexcusable and universally repugnant, ensure that it has a far greater dramatic impact than
similar films dealing with, say, alcoholism or
drug addiction.
As odd ad the word «diclofenac» is, it was the even stranger
name of a
similar drug that really made me wonder: «etoricoxib».
Pharmacists may dispense a much higher dosage than the one prescribed, or confuse two
drugs with
similar - sounding
names.
For example, while ordinary medical mistakes by a medical doctor such as confusing two
drugs with
similar names or putting the decimal point in a prescription dosage, causing harm to a patient, would not ordinarily result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb of a patient needs to be amputated despite a clear indication in marker on the leg of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal negligence on the part of a medical doctor.
Oscar's summaries were all grouped on one page with confusingly
similar file
names, but we quickly forgave this small inconvenience when we saw that its
drug formulary was a searchable database, which let us find an answer to our
drug coverage question in seconds.
We eventually found a list of formularies with subtitles like «Generic Premium - Downstate,» but then the
drug was listed in one document but not in another with a
similar name, which left us without a definitive answer.
U.S. consumers who fill their prescriptions abroad have to realize that the
name of a
drug bought in another country may be identical or
similar to the
name on their prescriptions back home, but the
drug they are given may have a different active ingredient or not be in the same dosage and could cause serious and sometime irreparable harm.